Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well as UNRRA, skipped gingerly over the point which retiring UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman had insisted was not only a moral obligation of the U.S. but one sure way to prevent world famine: reinstate U.S. food rationing. LaGuardia was on safe ground; both President Truman and ex-President Hoover, now touring Europe investigating food shortages, were against going back to rationing...
From France, French North Africa and Italy, Investigator Hoover had reported: "Conditions difficult but not intolerable, provided present rations can be maintained." But last week, in Warsaw, he found Poland's food situation "heartbreakingly bad"-the worst he had seen. He found "over 2,600,000 children terribly subnormal from undernourishment... two cities, Cracow and Lodz, have already been without bread for three weeks at a time...
...promises but a country unprepared either to reabsorb or support them. Veterans legislation was a hodgepodge and the Veterans Bureau was a scandal until President Harding made a halfhearted attempt to clean it up; then the bureau became more concerned with economy-those were the days of Coolidge and Hoover-than philanthropy. Veterans plunged into race riots. The jobless sold apples, and in 1932 marched on Washington. The Government drove them out with cavalry and tanks while the nation watched in shame...
When ex-President Hoover said that Latin America would have to make up Europe's food deficit this year, he was talking about Argentina. Argentina expects to have the wheat (two and a half million tons), corn (three million tons) and, above all, meat (half a million tons) that may make all the difference. UNRRA would have to come to Peró (though Argentina was not even a member), and Argentines knew it. Crowed the Peróist El Laborista: "What would UNRRA do without Argentina...
...Mortimer Wilson decided that the taurine author's head was one of the six "most startling and exciting heads in the world . . . faunlike." The other pre-eminent polls: Admiral William F. Halsey, British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, U.A.W. Leader Walter Reuther, Cinemactor Tyrone Power, G-Man J. Edgar Hoover...