Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reaction to farm relief: In Nodaway County, Mo., President Hoover owns an 80-acre farm, valued by the board of equalization at $85 per acre. Said a board member: "With farm relief in sight, the President's farm ought to be more valuable." Its valuation was then moved up to $125 per acre...
Tariff. Still in committee, this legislation promised to furnish prime excitement for the session. That rates on agricultural products should go higher no one denied. Whether rates on raw materials and manufactured goods would be likewise increased, contrary to the wishes of President Hoover, remained the major uncertainty...
...anti-trust law anyway and, as President Ralph Clinton Holmes of the Texas Co. put it, "if by chance we are held to be acting in restraint of trade, leave it to the courts to determine whether such restraint is in the public interest or not." But the Hoover administration recalled this clause in the final section of Article 1 of the Constitution: "No state shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into any agreement or compact with another state. . . ." Interstate treaties were rare, though not new.* Secretary Wilbur prepared to send Dr. George Otis Smith, Chief of the Geological...
...years Coolidge economy was the prime raw material for the japes of Washington newsmen's famed Gridiron Club. Last week at the club's spring dinner, new material offered itself for roasting- Hoover Efficiency. From 7:30 p. m. to 12:30 a. m. the 50 active club members entertained the President, the Vice President, the Chief Justice, the Cabinet, foreign envoys and themselves with snappers, skits, topical songs. Burlesque, ridicule and sarcasm heaped upon the White House. President Hoover, who spoke, took all with great good grace...
...backward glance at the Winter Season just closed in Buenos Aires reveals that the outstanding event was not the Hoover visit (TIME, Dec. 24), but the sudden and epochal decision of paunchy, prosperous Argentine males to adopt sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands...