Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enforcement of the law Congress voted a routine $37,000,000 and then an extra $3,000,000, the purpose of which seemed to be-in the minds of its Dry proponents-to show President Hoover that money would be no object if he would really take enforcement seriously...
...Hoover. Herbert Hoover, as Secretary of Commerce, with the Secretaries of State and Labor, constituted a special commission to report the scientists' findings. This report said: "Although this is the best information we have been able to secure, we wish to. . .state that in our opinion the statistical and historical information available raises grave doubts as to the whole value of these computations...
...Presidential candidate Herbert Hoover again said: "The basis now in effect [2% quota] carries out the essential principle of the law and I favor repeal of that part of the law calling for a new [National Origins] basis of quotas...
...Leadership is not muddling or meddling. I think of the great, constructive plans of Mr. Herbert Hoover, whom the prospering Americans have chosen as their President. . . . Right now the Liberal Party is ready with plans which will reduce the terrible numbers of the workless in the course of a single year, to normal proportions, and when completed will enrich the nation and equip it to compete successfully with business rivals." Though slightly vague as to these plans, which seemed to hinge upon employing the jobless in road building and on glamorous public works, Mr. Lloyd George made the ringing assertion...
When two major revolutions broke out in Mexico last week on the very day before U S. President Hoover's Inauguration, correspondents heard a flustered official of the U S State Department exclaim that Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, on his recent visit to Washington, certainly did not give Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg any reason to think that Mexico was on the brink of revolution. Curiously enough, the only U. S. daily which let this indiscreet admission into cold type was New York's arch-Republican Herald-Tribune...