Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward Beale McLean whose mother is Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh. Her Easter party was made sensational by a simple yet extremely clever device. She served orangeade-nothing stronger-and let it be known that since President Hoover...
Claiming to be a lineal descendant of George Washington,* Mrs. Francois Berger Moran goes marketing in an ermine coat. Herbert Hoover used her house last autumn as a campaign headquarters...
Meanwhile discussion of a successor to Mr. Herrick's high diplomatic post began. Four names emerged: Frank Billings Kellogg, John Joseph Pershing, Alvan Tufts Fuller, Frederick Henry Prince. President Hoover was faced with the necessity also of finding a new man to represent the U. S. at the court of St. James's. His purpose was to fit a smooth-working team into London and Paris. For the London post only one name really loomed: Charles Gates Dawes...
Tennessee. Last October Herbert Hoover went to Elizabethton to make a campaign speech. Proudly its citizens led him through the shiny new mills of the Bemberg and Glanztoff artificial silk companies. He was presented with a sample suit of underwear. Shrewd Germans had invested $10,000,000 in these mills to escape the U. S. tariff. But Germans are hard taskmasters. Mill operatives worked 56 hours per week; their pay envelopes held from $8.90 to $14; overtime brought no extra money. Spurred on by the American Federation of Labor, the Elizabethton workers struck last month. The strike was settled, with...
More trouble seemed imminent when Edward F. McGrady for the A. F. of L. and Alfred Hoffman for the United Textile Union went there last week to smooth out difficulties. Their missions were successfully completed when into McGrady's room at the Lynwood Hotel (where Mr. Hoover was feasted) broke a masked mob at 2 a. m. McGrady was seized, placed in a taxi, threatened with death if he ever returned, deported to the Virginia-Tennesee line at Bristol...