Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trench Talk. Sometime ago the protectionist forces abandoned manganese to the free list. The antitariff army taking possession of the trenches in the abandoned manganese sector, taunted their opponents. Brigadier-General Bingham denied that he had been asked by President Hoover to put manganese on the free list. denied that he had changed his vote upon the question (TIME, Aug. 26). General Couzens cried that the motion to abandon the sector had been made by "our leader" (i. e., Lieutenant-General Watson...
...Guardia, flamboyant campaigner, Wet, contested for the Republican nomination for Mayor with William M. Bennett, Dry. In the count there were nearly four La Guardia votes for every Bennett vote. Yet the total vote cast was not much over 80,000 compared to 714.000 votes cast for Herbert Hoover last November. Democrats used the figure to show how hopeless would be Mr. La Guardia's chances of performing the miracle of defeating silk-hatted Mayor James John Walker. Undaunted, little Mr. La Guardia made answer that he had not tried to get out the vote-Mr. Bennett...
Washington. President Herbert Hoover well knows that few U. S. citizens will agree to any program which would leave the country without sure defense. Therefore he postulated to the nation in a radio speech last week that he stands for "adequate preparedness ... as one of the assurances of peace...
London. It appeared certain last week that Britain and not the U. S. will call the Five Power Naval Conference scheduled for next January at which the tentative naval agreements thus far reached by President Hoover and British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald will be laid before France, Italy and Japan. Tall, cheerful Scot MacDonald put in the week quietly preparing for the good-will visit to Washington which he will make next week to smooth the way for the Five Power Conference. With his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel he motored out from London to Sandringham "by royal command...
...Unaccompanied by the U. S. Secret Service Allan Henry Hoover, the Presi dent's younger son went to Harvard's Business School, where Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. had gone before him.* After reading a telegram from his father, which forbade him to speak for the "talkies," Allan Hoover allowed himself to be press-photographed, went about his Business...