Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover Administration, dedicated to law-enforcement, last week was saved the ignominy of conducting its affairs through the medium of an illegal Congress. Long-wrangled, long-overdue Reapportionment, approved last fortnight (TIME, June 10) by the Senate, was provided for last week by the House when it passed a combined Census & Reapportionment Bill. The House measure duplicated the essentials of the Senate bill in providing that membership of the House shall be retained at 435, and that, after the taking of the census, State representations in the House shall be automatically reapportioned according to 1930 population figures by the executive...
...thousand people helped Ripon celebrate its claim last week. President Hoover, as honorary chairman, sent Secretary of War James William Good to represent him, to make a speech. The Good speech did not fully uphold Ripon's claim to Republican primacy. Said he: "The party . . . came up, literally, out of the ground, everywhere, in response to a country-wide demand from the people. Events, not men, called it into being...
Other stout Hoover campaigners no longer bound by hoops of steel to the Hoover breast are: Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Col. Horace A. Mann (Klan...
Into the White House one day last week walked Chairman Dr. Hubert Work of the Republican National Committee for a three-hour conference with President Hoover. When he came out, he joked with newsgatherers about a man who had been "hired and fired in ten minutes." A mystified Press soon learned that Dr. Work had resigned his high political post...
...Work resigned because he is 69 and his post is an empty honor. What he wanted out of the Hoover victory was not office (although Postmaster Generalship had been offered him) but power. As National Republican Chairman he yearned to sit at the jobbery turnstile passing his favorites through to their patronage rewards. And to satisfaction of this desire he felt himself entitled, for it was he, the Colorado doctor and Secretary of the Interior under Calvin Coolidge, who early espoused the Hoover cause, when it was risky to do so, and nurtured it from a shapeless hope...