Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Given by C of the potent ABC nations of South America, the dinner was an important affair. Present were, among others, eight members of the Cabinet, four ambassadors, four Senators, nine ministers, four Congressmen, three Hoover secretaries, two admirals, the Mayor of Philadelphia, et al. et ux. The setting was magnificent-a patio with orchids, palms, exotic birds, tropical fish. The dinner was also notable in that...
...statesmanlike exposure from which no ill came: Herbert Clark Hoover, hatless in a drizzle which penetrated to his underwear, taking oath of office in front of the U. S. Capitol...
...after which the average automobile retains no great expectation of life. It is estimated that 15% of U. S. families have two automobiles and 8% have three. Exported automobiles totaled 13.7% of production in 1928, should greatly increase in 1929. Thus the demand for the motorcar remains healthy, and Hoover prosperity is expected to provide the purchase price...
Died. Francis King Murray, 33, of Andover, Mass., instructor at Phillips-Andover Academy, onetime Leland Stanford footballer and trackman, son of Dr. Augustus Taber Murray, leader of the Friends Church in Washington, D. C. (attended by President Hoover); of kidney disease; in Boston. Surviving him are his two famed brothers-Robert Lindley Murray, national tennis champion in 1918, now with Hooker Electrochemical Co. at Niagara Falls, N. Y.; and Frederick ("Feg") Murray, Olympic trackman in 1920, now an able cartoonist and sportswriter on the New York...
...send American experts who can analyze, assimilate and then present to America the needs of a nation ready, eager, anxious to emerge from clouds of darkness and take a rightful place among the nations of the world. . . . Then let the report of the committee be presented to President Hoover, who will know what to do with it. . . . Certainly there is no service to humanity that Henry Ford could make of more lasting benefit than to send such a committee as I have outlined.'' Mr. Gest thought 100 experts would be enough...