Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearing that Democrats and insurgent Republicans were planning to alter this so-called flexible clause* so that Congress instead of the President should receive the Tariff Commission's recommendations, President Hoover last week waited until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a statement defending his rate-changing power as it stands. He said it was a wise power, protecting public interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus...
...floor he appears in a dark business suit and introduces a great many bills, usually minor in nature, for his constituents. When the constituents come to Washington he receives them cordially, and leads them proudly to the White House to meet President Hoover...
...Chance put one Hoover in the White House. The electorate put in another. Last week the second Hoover added a third Hoover to the household. President Hoover appointed Lieut.-Commander Gilbert C. Hoover of Columbus, Ohio, to be his Naval aid. The first Hoover, as everyone knows, is tall, greying Irwin ("Ike") Hoover, chief usher at the White House since the time of President McKinley. Hoovers Nos. 1, 2 and 3 are not related...
...President Hoover reappointed George Alexander Parks to be Governor of Alaska (second term...
...visit of Premier Ramsay MacDonald to the United States to meet President Hoover in a conference on naval limitation is significant, showing as it does, the importance being attached by statesmen to a reduction of the machinery of modern warfare. Is it not equally important, however, that the feeling of the intelligent citizenry of the world toward war be influenced and moderated just as much as the actual physical armaments of the nation...