Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Could more food be taken from the beaten enemy? Said Hoover: "There are Americans who . . . believe in an 'eye for an eye,' a 'tooth for a tooth'.. . . No one is the enemy of children . . . [and] to keep 500,000 American boys in garrison among starving women and children is unthinkable...
...Specter. Could the U.S. do more than it was doing? Back to Washington came Herbert Hoover, after a 35,000-mile tour through 25 food-short countries. After reporting to the President, he broadcast to the nation what he had seen: "The grimmest specter of famine in all the history of the world. . . . Hunger hangs over the homes of 800,000,000 people . . . over one-third of the people of the earth...
Even after whittling diets to a "bedrock" 1,500 daily calories, after stringently paring allocations of food to a subsistence minimum, Herbert Hoover conservatively figured that there still remained a "tragic gap" of 3,600,000 tons between world needs and world surpluses of exportable breadstuffs. This, said he, is "the whole amount necessary to save 40,000,000 people...
...real desire to reform the economy. He is actually an economic classicist. From time to time he has collaborated with revolutionists ("those carrion birds"), but only because he thought he could make use of them. He also collaborated with Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt...
...year pay boost for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...