Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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STEWART A. HOOVER...
...were flying and fighting on skis for Finland; an American volunteer aviator, one William H. Wallace Jr., was reported killed and then not killed; a deepening stream of men, materials and money was flowing from England, France, Italy and Scandinavia, not to mention the relief funds collected by Herbert Hoover...
Staid, stolid Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., posed in Manhattan, gun in hand, with noted Finnish Runners Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Maid, to symbolize the start of a new drive (see cut}. The former President welcomed the athletes as "ambassadors of the greatest sporting nation in the world," alluded rhapsodically but tactlessly to Thermopylae (where Leonidas and his 300 Spartans put up a stout fight against the Persian hordes, were massacred to a man). "Flying Finn" Nurmi, once world's champion distance runner, and his protege Maki, breaker of track records, including Nurmi...
...show business was agog with its latest, greatest cause. Special Finnish-benefit performances were announced for eleven Broadway hits, near-hits and near-flops. Stars and casts voted overwhelmingly to donate their talents, provide Mr. Hoover with more money to cable to Helsinki. Only the casts of Tobacco Road and a four-months something called See My Lawyer refused. Newspapers came through with oodles of publicity, especially Mr. Hearst's Bolshevik-hating press...
...Somebody pointed out that Herman Shumlin was the only Broadway producer advertising in the Communist Daily Worker. It seemed that Mr. Shumlin had almost no friends except Leftish Lillian Hellman, who writes some of the best plays he produces. John Golden, John Shubert, Eddie Dowling, other members of Herbert Hoover's Amusement Division sneered: "The Communists in show business . . . are up to their old tricks. ... So we have the nauseating spectacle of a house divided when as a matter of fact 99% of the people of the theatre are solidly behind this humanitarian cause...