Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover's first cabinet meeting assembled eleven men besides himself. The eleventh was Vice President Curtis who will attend Cabinet meetings as did Calvin Coolidge when Vice President. Most of the new members were somewhat self conscious when they appeared. Walter F. Brown the Postmaster General came in breezily having been a friend of President Harding's and a former Assistant Secretary of Commerce. Vice President Curtis was as much at his ease as anyone, was greeted familiarly by all. Of the old Cabinet members, Secretary Mellon slipped in by a side door as usual, Secretary Davis came...
...After four nights in the bed provided at the White House for Presidential slumber, Mr. Hoover ordered his own bed to be brought from his S Street house...
...being photographed. ¶ The Coolidge retinue likewise went its way. Major Coupal, the former White House physician, prepared to return to Washington. Everett Sanders, former Secretary to the President, went to Chicago to become a partner in the law firm from which James W. Good retired to become Mr. Hoover's Secretary of War. Edward T. Clark, Mr. Coolidge's other secretary, became Vice President of Drug Inc., a subsidiary of United Drug Co., of which Louis Kroh Liggett, Republican National Committeeman of Massachusetts, is President...
...Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg, was put in the embarrassing position of having to initiate policies that properly belonged to his successor. However, President Hoover relieved Mr. Kellogg's embarrassment as far as possible by announcing that the Mexican policy of the Coolidge administration would be continued. Secretary Kellogg shuttled back and forth to the White House daily to consult the President, and likewise conferred with the new Secretary of War, Mr. Good...
President Hoover, working out his sub-Cabinet appointments last week, began on the four air officers-Assistant Secretary of War (F. Trubee Davison), Second. Assistant Postmaster General (Warren I. Glover), Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics (William P. MacCracken Jr.). The President decided to retain Messrs. Davison and Glover and to accept resignations from Messrs. Warner and MacCracken. For Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, the President soon chose David Sinton Ingalls of Cleveland, a perfect complement for the Air Secretary of War. They are about the same age, enthusiasts, good friends. Mr. Davison founded the naval...