Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...freshman year, Miss Henry was discussing rock specimens with Prof. Branner in his laboratory. A stocky, serious-looking young man came in. He was a senior. Prof. Branner introduced him and said: "Miss Henry thinks this rock belongs to the precarboniferous age. What do you think. Hoover?" Hoover didn't think so. While he was explaining why, Prof. Branner was called away. Miss Henry and Senior Hoover kept on discussing rocks. He could tell her a good deal about geology. She repaid him by helping with his English when it threatened to flunk him and prevent his graduation...
...Engineer Hoover went to Australia, sent an important cable, returned to Monterey, went (because of the hurry) to a Catholic priest, and sailed away to China with Lou Henry Hoover, are details familiar to all since the campaign. Mrs. Hoover moves steadily through his background from then on. At Tientsin during the Boxer Uprising, she nursed the wounded at the club, scooting past open corners of the compound on a bicycle while bullets whizzed above...
...London, at the outbreak of the War, women sat about wondering loudly what they could do to help U. S. refugees. Mrs. Hoover tossed her purse with 70 pounds into a basket and said: "Let's begin with that. Now let's go to the station and meet those Americans and help them...
...Washington, as wife of the U. S. Food Administrator, she invented the Hoover apron, started the "cash-and-carry" movement, planned and built temporary houses for girl clerks...
When Mrs. Hoover was a co-ed at Stanford, she knew and liked Marguerite May Blake there, a serious-minded girl studying medicine. Miss Blake married Ray Lyman Wilbur, whom Herbert Hoover was to choose for his Secretary of the Interior. Mrs. Wilbur is Mrs. Hoover's closest friend in official Washington...