Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...G.O.P. South, to the ordinary Southern Democrat, is a disreputable organization. Last week President Hoover set about making it reputable...
...President Hoover issued two proclamations last week: 1) he designated May 1 as Child Health day; 2) he created a special board of inquiry under the Railway Labor Act, which averted a strike of 4,000 shop and train employes on the Texas and Pacific...
...Aboard the U. S. S. Utah returning from South America, President Hoover was in- troduced to Bull-in-the-Ring as a form of exercise. Five or six members of his party formed a circle, with one man in the centre as "It." A heavy medicine ball was thrown around the circle until "It" could touch it. President Hoover has now imported this game into the rear grounds of the White House where at 7 a. m. in a large black sweater and grey flannel trousers he plays it with his friends for half an hour. Bulls-in-the-ring...
Last week President Hoover appointed French Strother, California Democrat, to this post of research and literary secretary. Mr. Strother will burrow through many a tome to fill the Hoover speeches with new and illuminating facts. No one more than the President knows the value of judicious publicity and the White House press relations staff will do all it can to suppress the customary tittle-tattle that surrounds the Presidency by offering instead good substantial material for publication...
...Strother achieved a Washington reputation on the World's Work in the days when it dealt seriously (though safely) with politics. The World's Work, under Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, now devotes itself to popular business tales, leaving to President Hoover the Strother erudition...