Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first page of the July 22 issue of TIME there is reference to a visit of a delegation of the Lord's Day Alliance of the United States to President Hoover. The following corrections are submitted...
Legislative hobby: Laws against cotton speculation, the boll weevil and Federal crop reports which depress cotton prices. His friends consider him the Senate's "cotton expert." He publicly complained that President Hoover put no "real cotton man" on the Farm Board...
...naval aides, personages of great official importance. As a civilian he felt a little lost until he caught sight of his good friend Senator Borah sitting up near the head of the U-table. And there, too, were Calvin Coolidge, Frank Billings Kellogg. The Chicago lawyer watched President Hoover, looking hot in a cutaway, shake hands with other people coming through the door from the Green Room...
President Hoover took his place at the head of the U-table. Microphones were removed from the table while photographers took pictures. Before radio men could replace the microphones, President Hoover rose, began hurriedly reading his speech held in his left hand. This mishap prevented a broadcast of his words. Suddenly the East Room air began to rumble with sound as distracted radio announcers substituted for the President, read his speech to their audiences. President Hoover's low voice was swallowed up in the vocal confusion...
President Hoover at once halted construction of three U. S. cruisers, prepared to investigate, through another commission, the high cost of the army (see p. 12), promised a hearty welcome to Premier Ramsay MacDonald whenever he comes...