Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every 5,000,000 inhabitants. (The U. S. would have 27 votes, the remainder 22.) Until direct elections of intercontinental congressmen could be arranged, the President could appoint them, with Congressional approval, or let Congress pick them from a list of Presidential recommendations. (Streit suggests Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, James M. Cox, asks readers to suggest other names.) This Union would be empowered to handle foreign relations, establish a common currency, common citizenship, common communications in the Federal Union. All powers not specifically granted the Union would be retained by each state: the state could be socialist or capitalist...
...investigation of sabotage in defense plants. But before they had parted they had thought of an idea that excited them both: a series of posters to encourage factory workers to obey regulations and keep their mouths shut. Hungerford and Sherman took their idea to FBI's J. Edgar Hoover. G-Man Hoover liked it too, and Hungerford and Sherman went to work...
...January Herbert Hoover submitted to the exiled Belgian Government in London a plan for the feeding of Belgium...
Under it 1,000,000 destitute adults and 2,000,000 children would be nourished by soup kitchens. Germany would supply 1,000,000 bushels of bread grains each month, and Mr. Hoover's National Committee on Food for the Small Democracies would supply 20,000 tons of fats, soup stocks and special children's foods. The latter would be carried through the British blockade only in ships not otherwise available to Britain...
...Herbert Hoover had heard all this before, and he demurred in detail: "1) No food goes directly or indirectly to the Germans.- If the Germans furnish their part of the supplies, it will amount to more food values sent into Belgium than could possibly be taken out of Belgium or fed to their own Army. The effect is to reduce, not increase, German supplies...