Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newsgatherers he said, "Well, I'd forgotten the date. It is really March 4 now, isn't it? No, I don't think I shall tune in. What I want to do is shoot some golf." Asked if he had sent a message to Mr. Hoover, he answered, "Why should I bother him to read a telegram from me? I called on him a while ago personally and gave him my good wishes." Out on the golf course while the inauguration was going on he ejaculated, "This is the life...
...were unduly prejudiced during the campaign. I hope you say something favorable about Hoover next week. Like Paul, the Happy Warrior perhaps fought a good fight, kept his faith, but he surely finished his course. Let's hope there is laid up for him a crown of righteousness...
...What Mr. Hoover told the press was that in general he would continue the arrangements made by President Coolidge: 1) that correspondents might submit questions in writing; 2) that he would answer such of those questions as he saw fit; 3) that sometimes he would give correspondents information not to be quoted in order to explain his attitudes...
...Hoover added: "I am anxious to clear up the twilight zone, as far as we can between authoritative and quotable material, on one hand, and such material as I am able to give from time to time for purely background purposes on the other...
Other events of Mr. Hoover's first week in office...