Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 17 issue of TIME you give a list of people who have received honorary degrees at various institutions of learning at Commencement time this year. Among them is the name of Lou Henry Hoover who received a degree from Swarthmore. You have failed to state that the same institution, at the same time, conferred a degree on Marion Edwards Park! President of Bryn Mawr. I infer that it is not accounted "lese majeste" to mention the President of Bryn Mawr College in the same class with the wife of the President of the United States...
...Director of the Budget is responsible only to the President. He can command the President's attention at any time, his support always. When the Director of the Budget says "No" to greedy forces in the Government, he speaks with the voice of the President. That President Hoover was prepared to say "No" loud and often through Director Roop was indicated last week when preparations were made to hold budget estimates down to the Coolidge level?about $3,800,000,000 per year...
...chosen and he was of the army too. The tradition now seemed soundly entrenched. Director No. 1 was Brig.-Gen. Charles Gates Dawes. Director No. 2 was Brig.-Gen. Herbert Mayhew Lord. Director No. 3 is Col. James C. Roop, who will doubtless get higher rank before long. President Hoover induced him to accept "at great personal sacrifice...
Prime Minister, hoped to be able to visit the U. S. this summer with Canada's MacKenzie King, to have a talk with President Hoover (see p. 11). It is also official that Edward Price Bell, dean of the foreign staff of the Chicago Daily News, had "sold" the idea, first to Prime Minister King, then to Mr. MacDonald. Among journalists, Edward Price Bell is a Pundit, not only a writer and interpreter but also a molder, a creator of news. He is heir to the dream of the late, great Victor Fremont Lawson, builder of the Chicago Daily News...
President of the Christian Herald Corporation is Chain-Storeman James Cash Penney, friend of President Hoover, avid Dry. To please Mr. Penney, and also because it is his own conviction. Editor High often pens editorials loudly decrying the evils of drink, lauding the benison of Prohibition...