Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ascetics who observe Mr. Hoover's regulations should worry now. The Lampoon today unleashes a special number in commemoration of the wheatless, lightless, heatiess and generally lifeless days that food and fuel administrators have seen fit to decree. If it is still within the law to laugh and grow fat, the meatlessness of the current day ought not to cut down the undergraduate avoirdupois...
...operate our commercial and industrial activity. Meetings, which the President is expected to attend, will be held very frequently. Although this council is intended to be superior to the Cabinet, in that it coordinated the activity of the secretaries with that of the specially-appointed regulators such as Mr. Hoover and Dr. Garfield, yet it will not interfere with the regulation itself. As a connecting link between the Chief Executive and his assistants, it will relieve one of much difficult, management, and unify the efforts of the others...
...article by ex-President Taft in another column on this page states in a most convincing way the reasons which exist for backing up the work of Mr. Hoover as food conservator. We have in Mr. Hoover a man of most valuable experience abroad in a particular and most unusual kind of work which someone had to do here. We had in him a man not only of experience and ability, but one of the highest and most patriotic motives--a man above party animus or bias, above private interest, without concealments or prejudices. He patriotically assumed a most ungrateful...
...under his command this little fight of ours with wheat and corn and meat and sugar, the senators are in simple fact weakening our allies and helping the Germans. What will the people do and think about that? We believe that they will rally heartily to Mr. Hoover's support, and that the attack upon him will serve to strengthen his hands. --Boston Transcript...
...Hoover asks for voluntary rationing in the nation's households, with a maximum allowance of three pounds a person a month. This, applied to every individual, would cut our year's consumption in two. There is no difficulty in getting along in the home on the amount the Food Administration specifies. Thousands do regularly with much less per capita. New York...