Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vernon Kellogg, wife of the scientist, and Mrs. Mark Sullivan, wife of the newsman, are other friends of Mrs. Hoover who have entered the White House circle...
When Ray Lyman Wilbur left Leland Stanford's presidency to become President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, there were predictions that the long-discussed Department of Education might now become a reality, with Dr. Wilbur as its first chief...
...emergency of having to vote to break a tie. How would he vote? asked Senators under their breath. In the Coolidge era, as Kansas Senator and presidential candidate, he had voted once for and once against the equalization fee, of which the debenture plan is the equivalent in the Hoover...
...undecided Senator, a Democrat. "Nose-Holding." Southern Democrats could give the condition of the cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what the debenture plan amounts to. But Northern, city Democrats could give as their only reason a partisan desire to put President Hoover in a hole. As in 1924, they found themselves playing catspaw for the Progressive Republicans. New York's Copeland, for example, said he would vote for the debenture plan, but "hold his nose" while he did so. Shifter Nye. North Dakota's Nye (Progressive) had declared against the debenture...
President Hoover commended this voluntary action of the carriers as "a fine act of co-operation...