Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sympathizers regretted that the Pact had backfired at Mr. Stimson's first major attempt to operate it, applauded his courage in proceeding on the assumption that a positive character has been given to a perfectly negative document by the verbal resolution of President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald...
Such last week was the promotion of Patrick Jay Hurley from the sub-Cabinet to the Cabinet, to replace Iowa's James William Good, deceased. His appointment by President Hoover approximated cabinet recognition for the no longer Solid-South, First Oklahoman to sit in a cabinet, Secretary Hurley is a Roman Catholic. Washington, familiar with him for less than a year, predicted two things of his incumbency at the War Department: 1) Though the youngest of the Cabinet (46), he will not be a mere Yes-Man. He brims with ideas of his own, will keep his chief busier...
...active politician, he worked hard through the American Legion for the Hoover nomination, campaigned through the Southwest, was the Hoovers' house guest at Inauguration. Favorite Hurley campaign expression: "A greater number of people have been happier under the American flag for a greater length of time than under the flag of any other nation." This phrase was ghost-written for him but, with characteristic onrushingness and vitality, he made...
Pleased was Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde to be able to report to President Hoover a "gradual improvement" in husbandry. Farm incomes ($12,527,000,000) were higher than in the last three years. The decline in land values had been retarded. Fewer husbandmen were quitting their acres for the city. Some 1929 farm facts...
...would not fiddle at a fire. House Joint Resolution No. 133 gave the Speaker a splendid chance to contrast with the Senate's sloth his own House's prized efficiency. H. J. Res. 133 was the measure providing the 1% income tax reduction called for by President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 9). The Ways & Means Committee had given it a favorable report in 30 minutes. For its discussion on the floor the Speaker allowed the House just three hours. To the debate he did not have to listen, because he turned the chair over to Representative Sloan of Nebraska...