Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like the sea's ebb and flow, the spirit of naval disarmament rises and falls with the coming and going of governments. Last week President Hoover sent it billowing up the beach of popular expectation with fresh momentum...
...government tried and failed to limit naval armaments with the British Conservative government under Prime Minister Baldwin. Destiny seemed to be working in President Hoover's behalf, for at the very moment of his Arlington speech, the Baldwin government was being voted down by the British electorate. Past experience has shown that Britain's Labor Party, now on the threshold of power, is less suspicious of naval reduction than the Tories...
...Rudolph Krohne of Berlin last week asked the President to attend the International Advertising Association's convention in that city next August. Instead of accepting, President Hoover wrote a letter commending advertising ethics to Charles Clark Younggreen, the association's president. Mr. Younggreen, overjoyed, made the letter public two months before the convention...
Last week the Commission called by President Hoover to study "all law" held three meetings in Washington. These things happened...
...President Hoover, standing at the head of the Cabinet table and reading from notes, gave the Commissioners 301 words of advice and encouragement. The word "Prohibition" was not uttered...