Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington there was joy aplenty at the prospect of Mr. Morrow in the Senate. Particularly pleased was President Hoover, whose enthusiasm had really brought the Morrow appointment to pass. If a President ever needed in the Senate a friend of the personality and capabilities credited to Mr. Morrow, that President is Herbert Hoover...
Leaders. While Mr. Morrow will have no official standing as a Senate leader because of his lack of seniority, he will nevertheless be able to exert a strong Hoover influence on the Senate's nominal leadership. Senator James Eli Watson has made such a poor fist of leading the Senate since last April that his Republican followers have been casting about for a means of displacing...
President Hoover recommended increased appropriations for the foreign service, Prohibition, law enforcement, river & harbor improvements, care of Indians, forest protection...
Last week to the House of Representatives, where all appropriations must originate, President Hoover sent his first Budget, providing for the fiscal year 1931.* Chief figure of the Hoover budget: $3,830,445,231, the Government's estimated expenditure for next year, exclusive of a postal deficit and additional outlay for the Federal Farm Board. Comparatively, this amount is $4,304,000 greater than current actual expenditures. Said President Hoover: "Our finances are in a sound condition." He envisaged surpluses of 225 million this year, 122 million next, reiterated his tax reduction recommendation...
...complex are the Budget's figures that President Hoover prepared for his own use a simplified compilation, grouping expenditures under functional heads, rather than by departments and bureaus. This "personal budget," as the President called it, showed how each dollar of Government money will be divided...