Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago Rumrunner James Horace Alderman killed two coast guardsmen in Florida. Last week President HooVer was asked to commute Alderman's death sentence to life imprisonment. This he declined...
...White House is the springboard to head lines-Washington Axiom. President Hoover last week set about uprooting the conditions which made this saying, known to every wide-awake capital press agent, lobbyist and promoter, unpleasantly true. For months the President has been annoyed at the old and accepted practice of self-important little men entering the White House, saying "How-do-you-do" to the President, coming out to the newsgatherers in the lobby to talk of their "mission." What is said is generally of small importance; it would get scant press attention anywhere else. But because the publicity-seeker...
...dockyards. . . . "We are indebted to the Board of Admiralty for the help they have rendered. . . . They have furnished us with loyal help toward achieving our objective with the least possible dislocation and hardship." Pained British taxpayers visioned millions of their money being spent vaguely on "naval repairs." Watching the Hoover-MacDonald naval parings, Japanese Naval Minister Takeshi Takerabe said: "We cannot fail to derive inspiration from such examples...
Commissioned by TIME to paint the Hoover Cabinet, the first panel of which is published this week (see front cover), Painter Douglas Chandor of London, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Detroit and Washington, D. C. is like Author Chesterton's Noah?everything "on the largest scale;" that is, in the grand manner...
...give the portrait to the city. But Col. Lindbergh backed out of the engagement lest all U. S. cities make similar demands on his time. In his large Book-Cadillac studio-suite, Painter Chandor stayed at Detroit, painting the prosperous, until last spring when TIME gave him his Hoover Cabinet commission, when he moved to Washington. This project is now half-finished, with the President, Vice President, the Secretaries of State and the Navy, the Attorney-General and Postmaster-General...