Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good President must have a good Press.-U. S. POLITICAL PROVERBS. A fortnight ago, guests at the White House were Mr. and Mrs. Adolph S. Ochs of Manhattan. While Mrs. Hoover motored Mrs. Ochs around Washington and entertained her (TIME, April 15), President Hoover devoted spare moments to Mr. Ochs, who publishes the august, fatherly (and almost always Democratic) New York Times. President Hoover asked Publisher Ochs this and that about U. S. journalism. After the Ochses had gone, President Hoover wrote a speech. Last week President Hoover went to Manhattan, taking his speech with him, the first extra-routine...
Walter Johnson, longtime pitcher and now manager of the Washington team, entered the President's box, handed him a shiny white baseball. President Hoover stood up, held a pitching pose long enough for cameramen to get the picture, then hurled the ball high and far to Umpire George Moriarty...
...ankles is the legislative pastime of not a few Senators and Congressmen. Such a nipper-snapper is Tennessee's rubicund Senator McKellar who, at the Senate's brief special session last month, raised the question of Andrew William Mellon's eligibility to serve President Hoover as Secretary of the Treasury. Always antagonistic to Secretary Mellon, Senator McKellar, by resolution, asked...
Edgar Malone Hoover, Jr., of Boise, Idaho; Wladimir Samuel Seidel, of New York City; Russell Thornley Sharpe, of East Greenwich, R.L. Israel Solomon Stamm, of Norwich, Conn...
...Quaker village of West Branch, Iowa, there was once a tow-haired boy who hung around the printing shop of the local Times so much and caused so much devilment, usually by distributing handset type into wrong boxes, that occasionally he had to be ejected-Herbert Clark Hoover. So said A. W. Jackson, 50 years a country newspaper man, retiring last week from the staff of the Tipton (Iowa) Advertiser...