Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Herbert Hoover already in Washington, the Coolidge era seemed to hurry to its close...
There followed a few days in the Vice-Presidential suite at the New Willard Hotel and the wholesale resignation of the Cabinet - Hughes and Mellon, Hoover and Davis, New and Wallace, Work, Weeks, Daugherty and Denby - and every resignation rejected as it came. There followed the entrance into the White House with eight trunks, and the appearance of astute C. Bascom Slemp, Virginia politician-Secretary, at the Presidential elbow. Came William Morgan Butler, manufacturer and campaign manager, not yet dreaming of the Senate...
Brule. The vacation at Brule, Wis., was the happiest of all. The choose had finally been accepted. Hoover was nominated. There were fish, lots of them, to be caught. President Coolidge could and did say to news-cameramen: "Mr. Hoover won't carry on his end of the conversation...
...House and Senate, in joint session in the House's chamber, went through the ceremonious anachronism of counting the electoral vote and making the official discovery that Herbert Clark Hoover had been elected President, and Charles Curtis Vice President...
...mahogany boxes in which reposed the solemn electoral certificates. Page McCarty is a squint-eyed little boy with a round face, a slight lisp, freckles, a cowlick, and good teeth for apple-biting. He served the Brown Derby during the campaign as personal messenger. He wept honestly when Nominee Hoover was elected. Alert, respectful, he is the Senate's favorite page. Page Logan is Senator Smoot's grandson...