Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover proclaimed the national origins quotas of immigration ordered by Congress and operative after July 1. Attorney-General Mitchell had advised him that the proclamation was mandatory. Based upon a "scientific" estimate of foreign contributions to U.S. native stock in the past 140 years, national origins is viewed with alarm by President Hoover, who believes its basic statistics unsound. But said Mr. Hoover: "I naturally dislike the duty. . . . But the President of the United States must be the first to obey the law." An effort will be made to repeal national origins in the special session of Congress...
...President Hoover has no great fancy for women in public office. Nevertheless, appreciative of her excellent work in the past, he returned to Jessie Dell, a Georgia Democrat, her resignation as a U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, thus retaining her in office. He also sent back unaccepted the resignation of General Charles Pelot Summerall, Chief of Staff...
...President Hoover made public no answer to a wistful "open letter" on his religion, published by Editor Charles Clayton Morrison in the Christian Century. Said the letter, in part: "In choosing you, the people of the United States rejected the candidacy of a Catholic. . . . Some day ... the mind of Christ will become the mind of the State...
...White House hurried Captain Einar Paul Lundborg, of the Swedish Royal Flying Corps, rescuer of General Umberto Nobile in the Arctic, to pay his respects to President Hoover. He wore a brand new uniform. Three Washington tailors had made it for him in three hours when his trunk failed to follow him promptly from Manhattan...
...President Hoover last week granted a pardon, his first, to Nat Goldstein. Missouri politician, convicted in a liquor conspiracy case in St. Louis. Goldstein was a Lowden delegate at the 1920 Republican National Convention to whom $2,500 was paid...