Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better to aid-the-farmer, President Hoover last week exercised power given him last winter in the Farm Relief Act and transferred to the Federal Farm Board the entire personnel, equipment and functions of the Department of Agriculture's division of co-operative marketing...
...erratic friend of Charles Curtis of Kansas is William Allen White of Kansas. In his voluminous public writings, Mr. White once called Mr. Curtis "a nit-wit." But during the 1928 campaign he more or less retracted that and helped the Hoover-Curtis ticket by throwing mud at Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Senator Moses, another important Hooverizer, "urged me to make a big navy speech in Boston during the Hoover campaign to fool the simple Irish," said Shearer. This was undenied...
Senator Allen, publicity chief of the Hoover campaign, "told me I ought to go out and make Hoover campaign speeches," revealed Shearer. Retorted the Senator: "I wanted to get rid of you around publicity headquarters...
...McCarl report did not charge malfeasance, but President Hoover straight way ordered Attorney-General Mitchell to discover whether there had been any violation of the law. The President was careful to point out that all the instances cited were "prior to this Administration." As many citizens recall, President Coolidge was constantly prodding the U. S. Shipping Board to get rid of this floating white elephants...