Word: hooverization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a tall, tanned geophysicist and petroleum engineer named Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. addressed the Institute of Radio Engineers in San Francisco. He told them how seismographic or "artificial earthquake" methods of prospecting for oil had improved in recent years. Technique at present is to bore a hole 500 ft. deep, drop a dynamite charge to the bottom. When the charge is exploded, vibrations resembling earthquake waves ripple out in all directions. Some travel straight down, and part of them are reflected back up with different intensities from layers of rock, sandstone, limestone, shale. Geophones on the surface pick...
During his four years in the White House the U. S.'s greatest ex-Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, used to announce at regular intervals that business was getting better. Not yet quite so famous are the announcements of another H. H., Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, business-appeaser emeritus. Mr. Hopkins last week issued another H. H. announcement to spread a little recovery cheer, noting an end-of-May "pickup in activity": increases in auto sales and in post-strike coal activity...
Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover...
...history to have been both Justice and Chief Justice. The first was Edward Douglass White, whose colleagues in 1910 unanimously petitioned President Taft for his elevation to lead them. Mr. Hughes resigned from the Court in 1916 to run for President, went back as Chief in 1930 by President Hoover's appointment. Washington insiders last week predicted that, if Franklin Roosevelt must pick a new Chief Justice and follows precedent by picking from the field, his choice will lie between Frank Murphy and Robert Houghwout Jackson. If he promotes a Court member, they said, the lucky man will...
...Catholic bishop in the U. S., Georgetown is the oldest U. S. Catholic college. For the occasion President O'Leary staged elaborate ceremonies, gathered many a bigwig for kudos and speeches (among them: Speaker William B. Bankhead, U. S. Attorney-General Frank Murphy, head G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, American Bar Association President Frank J. Hogan). To President O'Leary and the 7,000 other celebrants came an Apostolic Blessing from Pope Pius...