Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover right forearm ached painfully. The President could write only with difficulty. In one day he had shaken 1,757 hands at the rate of 43 per minute. From their Congressmen, citizens obtain letters entitling them to a presidential handshake. In one day last week, New York's Senator (Dr.) Copeland. who last month cautioned President Hoover to mind his health, sent 188 handshakers to the White House...
...commenting on the Kansas City convention, Citizen Coolidge pointed out that the opposition to Herbert Hoover made the mistake of scattering itself over many candidates none of whom developed strength "to make a showing sufficient to impress the convention...
...Coolidge believed that his instructions through Secretary Sanders to unpledged delegations turned them to Mr. Hoover, "which brought about his nomination on the first ballot...
Then, on March 4, Mrs. Gann rode to the capitol with Mrs. Charles Gates Dawes, only to find no Senate gallery seat reserved for her. Herbert Hoover Jr. gave her his seat. On that occasion Mr. Gann rode alone to the Capitol at the tag-end of the procession. Nobody gave up a seat...
...State Department went into a stew. Statesman Stimson hemmed, hawed, temporized. President Hoover asked the Vice President and the Ganns to dinner at the White House and escorted Mrs. Gann into the state dining room himself, with Mr. Gann bringing up the rear. But this meant nothing because present were no foreign diplomats' wives to point the issue of precedence. The question of a seat for Mrs. Gann-and Mr. Gann-was all-balled-up. Washington society buzzed like a happy beehive...