Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smoot attitude seemed to many an observer to coincide remarkably with President Hoover's. Only the President's bitterest critics credit him with having been simple-minded or stubborn enough not to realize that Washington, with wet Maryland adjacent and the broad Potomac handy, is one of the easiest places in the U. S. to buy liquor. And only the fanatically Dry have failed to appreciate the sense of the Hoover policy on Prohibition, sharply announced soon after Inauguration (TIME, March 11). The gist of that policy was: "No more crusades...
...grand jury procedure. Mr. Rover said he would be "very glad" to have Senator Brookhart testify, but with everyone bearing in mind the motto "No more crusades," it seemed certain no great amount of evidence would be found, that any steps toward making Washington the "model" promised by President Hoover, would be quietly taken...
...corporations in the U. S. The Senators were lucky because they had the great industrialist before them as a witness in his own behalf. He had resigned (for as long as necessary) from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether he was fit for the job. It was the chance of a session if not of a Senatorial term for such friends...
...sailing time drew near it became more and more apparent that naval reductions, Prohibition treaties and all other specific topics were receding in the Prime Minister's mind, that he was setting out for a goodwill trip much like Herbert Hoover's tour of Latin America last winter as President-elect. His final word as the boat-train pulled out of crowded Waterloo Station was: "I hope to be able to do something to narrow the Atlantic...
...President Hoover goes to Detroit for Henry Ford's dedication of the Edison Laboratories; Oct. 22-goes to Cincinnati for the celebration of the opening of the $100,000,000 improved Ohio River waterways; Oct. 23-inspects Louisville...