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Word: hooverized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coolidge v. Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...great good fortune Mr. Shattuck ... is perhaps Hoover's closest legal friend. He is the personal attorney for Hoover and all his family. I have persuaded him to undertake a confidential mission to convince Hoover ... on behalf of Cuba. . . . Because of Shattuck's prominence and his intimacy with President Hoover, I expect we shall pay Shattuck . . . something like $75,000. . . . His connection with President Hoover is our strongest weapon. . . . President Hoover has taken a direct hand. He has already suggested a possible solution to Senator Smoot and to Mr. Shattuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Lobby's Weapons | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...attorney brought an explanation from Mr. Shattuck: "Such an impression is untruthful and unfair to the President and myself. Neither I nor any other friend of the President would attempt to use such a friendship in the manner suggested. . . . It would defeat its own purpose. ... I informed Mr. Hoover of my connection [with the Cuba sugar lobby], not to obtain his approval but so that there would be no misunderstanding. I have never sought anything from the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Lobby's Weapons | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Hoover conference I promised to do my share by keeping the country in good humor until the big corporations buy crutches for the crippled stocks. Every day beginning Monday I promise you one good laugh "Yours until my yacht catches on fire." Excerpts from his first syndicated crack: "If you are interested in the market you will notice that stocks are coming back. Yes, sir, they're coming back-but not to their original owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newscracker | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...Hoover and Mellon sent a chair to Coolidge the other day. The former President, being a man of very few words, won't thank them until they have sent two beds, a table, a rocker and some kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to Will Rogers' gum and spinning ropes-are blackface makeup and white-rimmed spectacles. He accentuates his lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newscracker | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

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