Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week President Hoover wrote curtly to U. S. District Attorney William A. Degroot of Brooklyn, N. Y.: "You are hereby removed from office . . . effective immediately." Cause: inefficiency...
...Last week President Hoover nominated: Charles Calvin Moore of Idaho as Land Office Commissioner; Horace Paul Bestor of St. Louis as head of the Federal Farm Loan Board, succeeding Eugene Meyer Jr., resigned...
...Last week President Hoover signed bills to: Appropriate $340,815.08 for the expenses of the special session of Congress; make available $4,250,000 to combat fruit flies in Florida...
...Casualty in the Hoover medicine-ball game:* William Hard, slight punditical newsman. Stopping a powerful throw, he slipped, sprained his ankle, needed crutches. "Hard luck," said the other players...
...President & Mrs. Hoover last week broke a precedent by giving a private dinner for Belgian Ambassador & Princess de Ligne. They had a good reason...