Word: hooverisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rain fell upon President Hoover on his weekend outing at the Shenandoah National Park camp. Indoors he talked tariff with Senator Reed Smoot, congestion in U. S. prisons with Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell He amused himself by cooking ham and eggs over a coal range, while Filipino chefs stood about as assistants...
...National Commander Paul Vories McNutt of the American Legion, which had protested President Hoover's suspension of cruiser construction, the President last week wrote: ". . . This is a forward step of the first importance. ... It is far better to at least try to establish [parity] by agreement before we resign ourselves to establish it by rival construction programs. ... I fear you have been misinformed as to the actual problems that lie before us, for they are far more intricate and difficult than can be solved by the simple formula which you suggest...
...Last week the Public Health service opened a special drive on rats in Washington. Despite his objection to drives in general, President Hoover did not object because two of the animals had recently frisked on the lawn back of his office...
...indeed would any diplomat be to have her for a wife. But residence in Rome as the wife of a U. S. Ambassador implied no domestic upheaval for Alice Warder Garrett. It was her husband, John Work Garrett, with whom she was last week cruising about Italy, that President Hoover had picked for this prime foreign post. President Hoover prepared to congratulate himself on filling another major post with a man of quality...
...Rome, Mr. Garrett, 57, will succeed Henry Prather Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador (professional), resigned, who sailed last week for the U. S. Mr. Fletcher was a victim of Rumor. When he personally conducted President-Elect Hoover down, across and around South America, Rumor chose him to be Secretary of State. When the No. 1 Cabinet job went to Henry Lewis Stimson, Rumor made Mr. Fletcher Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, largely because he had served 27 years as a career diplomat. After Charles Gates Dawes was chosen, Mr. Fletcher resigned. Rumor picked him up again...