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Word: hooverized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roosevelt idea of his job, as approved by President Hoover: to be not merely Governor of Porto Rico but U. S. Ambassador to the Caribbean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Switzerland of America | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

President Hoover vexed the convention of the American Dental Association at Washington last week by only greeting a few of them (see p. 13).* Also they were cross because they did not get the newspaper publicity which conventioneers expect. Partly that was not their fault. Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington and two sensational stranglings filled Washington papers and clogged national press services. But the dentists themselves were also to blame. Enterprising organizations do not wait for reporters to attend their meetings. Good publicity committees send information, well prepared, to the newspapers. The dentists did not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Testy Dentists | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Having slept in Abraham Lincoln's bed at the White House, Scot MacDonald moved to the British Embassy for his last days in Washington, rode out early in the afternoon to doff his hat at the tomb of Woodrow Wilson. Lest anyone suppose Mr. Hoover had told him to do this to ensure Democratic Senatorial votes for a future treaty, Embassy officials announced that he went of his own volition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Blazing to Peace | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Stimson's Stag. Spacious Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson, was the last place where Prime Minister clasped hands with President. Two hours previously they had formally farewelled at the White House, but Mr. Hoover slipped over to his Secretary's stag dinner. No socialites were present as such. Most of the stags were potent Congressmen and Senators of both parties, including Senatorial floor leaders Robinson (Dem.) and Watson (Rep.). Sound meat for conversation was a joint declaration issued earlier in the day by Stags Hoover and MacDonald, momentously summing the results of their conversations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Blazing to Peace | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Hoover -MacDonald Declaration: "Both our Governments resolve to accept the [Kellogg-Briand] Peace Pact not only as a declaration of good intentions, but as a positive obligation. . . . Therefore, in a new and reinforced sense the two governments not only declare that war between them is unthinkable, but that distrusts and suspicions arising from doubts and fears which may have been justified before the Peace Pact must now cease to influence national policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Blazing to Peace | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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