Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Cols, I and 2, p. 9, TIME, May 29, you print an item from the Punjab, extolling Herbert Hoover as the "giant who feeds all people." Since Mr. Hoover's entire public performance rests in the fact that he was Food Distributor during the latter part of the war, this seems an appropriate place to interpolate a few words of comparison between Hoover and other unknown, but highly efficient Food Distributors...
...know a couple of old Salvation Army Captains, Englishmen, who, during the Indian famine of twenty-five years ago, fed three times the number of starving human beings that Hoover fed during the World War. And these unknown famine relief agents did not have the richest nation on earth sending food to them by the shipload and shoveling out money by the barrel to maintain an enormous organization...
They had to collect the money, assemble the food supplies and distribute the food to inaccessible regions where camels, buffalo and coolieback were the only possible means of transportation. Beside their gigantic task, Hoover's Food Distributing job was simply a well-paid outing. And they did their work without any front page headlines or political ballyhoo. 'l think Herbert Hoover and Sinclair Lewis the two most overrated, overadvertised and disappointing men in American public life today...
...White House last week came a recommendation for yet another commission of investigation. This time President Hoover asked Congress in a special message to help solve the Prohibition Enforcement problem by appointing a joint committee to study...
...forgotten that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...