Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yellow, then shambling over to his old reed organ in the corner to play a few tunes. The tinkering was the climax of the celebration of "Light's Golden Jubilee." At a preceding jubilee dinner famed voices lauded the greatest Edison achievement. Owen D. Young was toastmaster. President Hoover spoke pleasantly, briefly. Mr. Ford made appropriate remarks. From a radio loudspeaker came the voice of Scientist Albert Einstein speaking from Berlin. Inventor Edison acknowledged the unheard compliments. Other famed guests at the Dearborn celebration: Airplane Inventor Wright, Ambassador Dawes, Steelman Schwab, Oilman Rockefeller Jr., Tireman Firestone, Cineman Hays, Secretary...
...office at last opened its eyes to the Board's official existence and drew, three months late, its members' first pay checks. On the basis of the Senate vote, Samuel Roy McKelvie, onetime Governor of Nebraska and the Board's wheat member, was the least popular Hoover nominee. The President had searched longest to find a wheat man for his Board and Mr. McKelvie's was the last difficult appointment. Twenty-seven Senators voted against his confirmation. Their complaint was that he was not a real wheat farmer, that he knew nothing about wheat farming, that...
...tall, blondish son of an Episcopal Bishop, is incontestably the greatest eye surgeon the U. S. has ever had.* Every U. S. President from Grover Cleveland on has needed eyeglasses, although they seldom were pictured wearing them. Dr. Wilmer has taken care of them all. Last week President Hoover telegraphed him congratulations on the dedication of the Institute. Secretary Mellon and his brother telegraphed him the promise of $30,000 for a research fellowship. Adolph Lewisohn, Manhattan banker, telegraphed another $30,000. Near Dr. and Mrs. Wilmer at the dedi cation ceremonies sat Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge, wife...
...Woodrow Wilson, which still helped him approach Democratic Senators. Lobbyist Burgess had requested the dismissal of Mr. Koch because, he explained, he had put the pottery industry in "the wrong light" before the Senate Finance Committee. Mr. Koch was not dismissed, though potters carried their complaints even to President Hoover. Sugar. Frank were the avowals of Harry A. Austin, secretary-treasurer of the U. S. Beet Sugar Association, of his efforts to obtain a higher tariff on sugar as a protection to the domestic industry. He told investigators that his headquarters had spent $500,000 in seven years to "educate...
Reason why five Europeans and one Asiatic will elect the two representatives of the U. S.: the Hoover Administration has negatived repeated proposals at Baden-Baden that the U. S. Governors should be named by the U. S. Federal Reserve Board. In thus eschewing even fiscal "entangling alliances" the U. S. keeps the freest possible hand, appears to have no fear that Europe and Asia will ever elect a Governor unacceptable to Washington...