Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...national significance of this Camp-bell-Whalen incident seemed to be that it was the first concrete test-and failure-of the Hoover policy of Federal and local co-operation on Prohibition enforcement (TIME, July 29 et seq.). New York is the largest and wettest of many a large, wet U. S. city where Prohibition is hardest and most expensive to enforce. If Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Boston et al follow New York's lead and decline to "cooperate" through their police forces, the Hoover policy, if continued, will resolve itself into a one-sided thing...
...post, empty since the resignation of Mrs. Charles Hamilton Sabin to fight Prohibition, New York G. 0. Politicians last week agreed to choose Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of Manhattan, New York's first Congresswoman. The fact that Mr. Hilles, out of political step with the Hoover Administration, had been without influence in choosing his political "wife," prompted Frank Richardson Kent, the Baltimore Sun's all-wise political observer, to comment...
...neither revere nor follow him in the way of her fair predecessor. Last year she exhibited a distressing lack of faith in Dewey's political judgment, refusing to follow him in the 'draft Coolidge' movement, preferring to ally herself with the early effort to nominate Mr. Hoover, seeing eye to eye with the astute Ogden Mills who has the same affectionate regard for Dewey he has for poison ivy and measles. ... If there is any following, Dewey will do it, not she. ... A very charming sensible woman . . . she isn't brilliant but she is clearheaded, understanding...
...famed "Hoover yardstick" or system comparing the "fighting strengths" of vessels (as distinguished from comparing only their tonnage) to be used chiefly in arriving at an agreement to reduce cruiser strengths, reduction of smaller craft like destroyers to proceed on a basis of simple tonnage...
...known that he had in pocket an important declaration concerning world peace. At British delegation headquarters it was hinted that the prime minister would make at least a partial announcement of progress made thus far in his almost daily parleys' anent naval reduction with President Hoover's forthright, hubble-bubbling Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, June...