Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year 1932 was anything but consistent and even-tempered. The one overshadowing constant was the Great Depression: 12 million workers were jobless, and as the months went by, more and more banks, businesses and factories folded up. The year slapped a brusque eviction notice on President Herbert Hoover and handed New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt a ticket to what turned into the longest White House tenure in history. It awarded triumph to Amelia Earhart as the first woman to match Charles A. Lindbergh's feat of a solo flight across the Atlantic. 1932 also brought cruel tragedy...
...Dixon (pop. 10,000) and Davenport (60,000), Americans anguished with the Lindberghs, exulted with Earhart and fervently argued national politics. The Dixon Evening Telegraph came out for Hoover, who took the county...
When J. Edgar Hoover, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, died in 1972, crime declined in the nation's capital for the first time in years. Now Cambridge's only breakfast table daily gets its chance to perform a public service; we expect that muggings and bank robberies and even double parking will continue as rampant as ever in the Square, but there will be none of the daily variety of Crime, not until January 5, that...
Working under Smith is a group of 18 that includes Alfred Bloomingdale, the Diners' Club founder; Joseph Coors, the Colorado brewer; W. Glenn Campbell, director of Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution; Holmes Tuttle, one of the biggest Ford dealers in California and long a close associate of the President-elect; Anne Armstrong, Gerald Ford's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; Justin Dart of Dart & Kraft, Inc., a multinational food and housewares corporation; Nevada's Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's key man in Washington; and Edwin Meese, Reagan's closest assistant...
...give the Cabinet a bi-partisan aura. The leading candidates for Secretary of State, if Shultz does not get the job, are now William Simon, a former Secretary of the Treasury, and Alexander Haig, former Nixon chief of staff. Thomas Sowell, a black conservative economist at Stanford's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, may enter the Cabinet as Secretary of Labor or Education...