Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich., and Frank W. Stearns, of Boston. C. The President received Barren Collier, Manhattan advertising man. was told that a business survey of 3.500 U. S. communities pointed to a prosperous 1929. ¶The President received President-Elect Herbert Hoover, welcomed him back from South America. What the President said, what the President-Elect said, was not made public. A later conference between outgoing and incoming Administrations was held behind closed doors from which only silence emanated. Correspondents maintained that President and President-Elect had decided that an extra congressional...
...seat of the U. S. Government is the White House. The centre of interest of the U. S. Government was. last week. the Mayflower hotel. Here sat Herbert Hoover. President-Elect. Here came Representatives, Senators, well-wishers, job-hunters. advisers. correspondents, Cabinet members, in all some 200 callers. Twice Mr. Hoover went visiting, both calls being paid to President Coolidge. The rest of the time Mr. Hoover received...
...outstanding Cabinet development of the week was that Mr. Hoover made no announcement ui ; ny Cabinet appointment; that, among thousands of words, of guesses and forecasts there was no authoritative statement. Predictions, however, verged on unanimity on two Cabinet matters. In the first place Andrew Mellon was conceded probable re-appointment to the position of Treasury Secretary. A two-hour conference between Mr. Mellon and Mr. Hoover served as the basis for the story that the Treasury Secretary and the President-Elect had reached an "accord." In the second place Mr. Hoover had been widely credited with a desire...
...Though Mr. Hoover has repeatedly announced that he will not concern himself with the legislation now before Congress, it is not unlikely that the topic of an extra Congressional session was discussed during his meetings with President Coolidge. with Senator Borah and with other Congressional leaders. At any rate it was after a conference with Mr. Hoover that Senator McNary of Oregon, Farm Relief leader, announced that he would not fight for consideration of a Farm Relief bill at the present short session. The much discussed extra session therefore, became virtually assured, will probably be called by Mr. Hoover shortly...
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.: Sir William Wise man, 43, onetime (1916-19) Chief of the British Intelligence Service in the U. S.; George W. Bovenizer, 49, with Kuhn, Loeb since 1897; Lewis L. Strauss, 32, wartime confidential secretary to President-Elect Hoover (TIME...