Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such, in effect, was the net result of the much-heralded oil conservation meeting held last week at famed Broadmoor Hotel, Colorado Springs, on the call of President Hoover (TIME, June 10). Three hundred delegates attended. From eleven oil-producing States came Governors or their representatives. The U. S. was there in the persons of Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur and Mark Lawrence Requa, the meeting's chairman and the President's special representative. Nine billion dollars of the eleven-billion-dollar U.S. oil industry were actively represented. For three days the delegates wrestled with oil, deplored...
President Hoover called the meeting in the hope that those attending it would contrive a means of reducing oil production, possibly by an interstate compact to be ratified by Congress. No such means was found. Instead, attention was focused upon differences within the oil industry which block the way to conservation. Two factors plainly caused the breakup...
...refusal of public-land States, notably Wyoming, Montana. Utah and Colorado, to participate in any interstate conservation compact until the U. S. Government "substantially modifies" the order issued by President Hoover last March curtailing oil development leases and explorative drilling by permit on U. S. lands. These States, deprived of royalty oil revenue by the Hoover order, were in no co-operative mood at Colorado Springs...
...publicist-friend of Candidate Smith, headed the publicity committee, wrote little, got little printed. Working for the Brown Derby in Washington last year were goateed Charles S. ("Buck") Hayden of the Nashville Banner, whiteheaded Robert Moores Gatee of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Their blunders ? for example, calling Candidate Hoover a "fat candidate from Piccadilly"?have not yet been forgotten...
...International Falls jail, charged first with manslaughter, then with murder. Safe there, he made no great effort to raise his $5,000 bail. The little town's citizenry seethed with indignation against White and "the system" he represented. Banding together they wrote a public protest to President Hoover which concluded: "In our utter helplessness, terror and distraction, we are at last resorting to you. . . . For God's sake, help...