Word: hooverizings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Violence strode the world last week. Great storms lashed the Great Lakes (see p. 15), the stock market crashed historically (see p. 45), assassin's guns were pointed in Belgium and Chile (see pp. 27, 32). President Hoover, rumbling through Indiana, felt his special train grind to a stop. A sedan had been placed on the tracks at a grade crossing. Secret Service operatives investigated on the spot. Two Negroes were arrested. They succeeded in convincing their captors that, ignorant of the President's proximity, they had plotted merely to collect damages from the railroad...
...Deeply grieved was President Hoover last week to hear physicians despair of saving the life of Senator Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio, the President's good friend and campaign supporter, ill for weeks following an attack of influenza (TIME, Oct. 14). Back from Ohio, President Hoover again visited the dying scholar, statesman, peace-lover, whose interest in waterways was recognized by Rooseveltian appointment to chairmanship of the Inland Waterways Commission 22 years ago. Mr. Burton died full of years (77) and honor...
...Last week President Hoover appointed: Lawyer Walter Ewing Hope of Manhattan...
Lobbyist Grundy, 67, grey-haired, white-mustached, thick through the shoulders, said he had raised $750,000 for the Coolidge campaign in 1924, had helped to raise "almost a million" for the Hoover campaign of 1928. This year he had spent $20,000 out of his own pocket in seeing that Pennsylvania industries got back, in higher tariff rates, these political contributions...
Beaverishness on a gigantic scale was manifest last week when President Hoover, energetic engineer, unfolded at Cincinnati his administration's plan for developing U. S. inland waterways into one vast closeknit system of cheap transportation. The same instinct which sets him to building toy dams and clearing out rock-choked channels in tiny mountain streams moved him to advocate a river improvement policy which will cost approximately a billion dollars...