Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York's Senator Copeland is a physician. He has crusaded for fresh air in the Senate chamber. Last week he went to the White House, sniffed the air in the President's office, remarked professionally that it was much too hot. President Hoover got up and raised the window...
Irwin Hood ("lke") Hoover, has for 30 years been major domo of the White House. He knows all Washington by sight, and what is more, in what order it can be seated around a dinner table without offending anyone. He is of infinite utility around the White House. Last fortnight he telephoned a store in haste to order necessaries...
Said he: ''This is Hoover at the White House...
Cautious to avoid political burns, President Hoover last week dipped into the seething caldron of ambitions which Washington has lately become, and flipped out several well-done new appointees. Chief of these were...
...Presidential secretary. Ten years a Minnesota member of Congress, Mr. Newton will now leave the Capitol to serve as White House contact-man with the many scattered independent executive bureaus and commissions.* Big, burly, strong-voiced, he directed the Speakers' Bureau in Chicago for the Hoover campaign...