Word: hooverness
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...almost too romantic to discuss objectively--Bird and Shaffer barely mention the internal splits that divided the IWW into Two Medium-Sized Opposing Camps, and they gloss over the unfulfilled need for an intellectual construct for the union. But what they do focus on is more important. J. Edgar Hoover cut his teeth on the Wobblies; in the face of government's crudest repressions, these immigrant laborers, farm-workers who rode the rails, and confirmed Marxists shone. The film opens with the interrogation of a Wobbly arrested for giving his soapbox message...
When he was ten years old, he got into a schoolyard fight because he was rooting for Al Smith over Herbert Hoover for the presidency. Ever since, Patrick Lucey, 62, has been a stalwart of the Democratic Party, a key reason why Independent John Anderson chose him last week as his vice-presidential running mate...
Sidey reports that the most fun he had while getting acquainted with the earlier Presidents was discovering that Herbert Hoover was an ardent, and articulate, fisherman. "My reporter-researcher, Cassie Furgurson, found a tiny volume by Hoover, called Fishing for Fun. Perhaps President Carter has also discovered the book, because he has recently become an avid fisherman. Hoover wrote: 'Fishing is a chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of the sun on the blue water.' It sounds so quieting and gratifying that...
...maintaining and expanding old programs--"the platform we adopted in '76 was pretty good, and it just hasn't been used yet," Fraser said. To Harrington and the 38 socialist delegtes at the convention who caucused Wednesday, the party must "go as far beyond FDR as he went beyond Hoover, to a new a much more radical liberalism...
...risk, moreover, may not have been worth taking. Ford, after all, was the first incumbent President since Herbert Hoover to lose an election, and part of his appeal today is due to nostalgia. In hindsight, particularly because of Carter's shortcomings, Ford seems to have been a better President than he was considered at the time. But he is at odds with Reagan on many questions ranging from the ERA to the Panama Canal. At 67, he could offer the 69-year-old Reagan no help on the age issue; some voters might even have found a Reagan-Ford ticket...