Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since ignored Russia and impotent Germany could not influence the decisions of the statesmen in Geneva, a practical effect of the Hoover decision was to enable France and Italy to carry their point that "trained reserves" and "military supplies" shall not be reduced. The German delegate, Count von Bernstorff, expressed his chagrin as follows...
Crossing the continent last fortnight from California?to join Mrs. Hearst in Manhattan, as he does at least once each year (wedding anniversary)?Mr. Hearst felt a public message stirring within him. President Hoover had just gone to Manhattan and addressed the Associated Press on the subject of crime and law enforcement (TIME, April 29). In the presidential reasoning, Publisher Hearst thought he detected flaws. Himself the holder of many an A. P. franchise, he proposed to tear apart and answer what President Hoover had said to the assembled editors and publishers...
...President Hoover's address." began Mr. Hearst, ". . . was a shot in the air?a blank cartridge fired against a blank wall...
Next came arraignment of flask-toting, whiskey-smuggling Congressmen, of bribe-rotted enforcement officers; praise for the Spirit of Liberty. The Hoover logic was then trapped and chided. The President had ascribed "high moral instincts" to the People in one breath, and in the next had complained that respect for law was fading from their sensibilities. The President had complained of increased crime but had not perceived that the drastic Jones (Five & Ten) Act, by sending up liquor prices and making convictions fewer, would cause the liquor trade to finance the underworld more handsomely than ever...
...Hearst papers supported the Hoover candidacy, for two reasons: 1) prosperity; 2) personal animosity between the Messrs. Hearst and Smith...