Word: hooverness
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...cause of Hoover High's good fortune is the head injury that George Cassell got while playing football at the University of California at Los Angeles. He lost his fullback's job and his athletic scholarship, transferred to a state college -and discovered the joys of learning...
Room 455 at Hoover High School in Glendale, Calif, contains a red-tailed hawk that eats horsemeat, a sinister 8-ft. anaconda, hordes of white rats, a map of every ant colony in the vicinity and George Cassell, 28, an exuberant young man who grew up at the foot of Mt. Shasta with a trout rod in his hand, football on his mind and no thought of study. As it turned, out, he was destined to make Room 455 just about the most popular teen-age hangout in Glendale. Since he teaches biology-one of the deadlier subjects...
...perhaps it only works--when the Federal Executive and influential business and the respectable press are in some degree at odds. Only then can we be sure that abuse or neglect, either public or private, will be given the notoriety that is needed. In the time of Coolidge and Hoover, the Federal Executive, business and the press were united. These are the times in our democracy when all looks peaceful and much goes wrong...
...previously unopened private papers, reveals an attractive personality who had far more liking and leaning toward F.D.R. and the New Deal than his reputation as a ''Kansas Coolidge" and the vituperative 1936 presidential campaign would suggest. In one telling vignette in a Topeka chicken restaurant, a bellicose Hoover barks rapid boos at a Roosevelt radio speech, and an embarrassed Landon hustles him away from the cluster of newsmen. When the supposedly bitter rivals met at a preelection Governors' conference in Des Moines. relations between Landon and F.D.R. were so harmonious that Kansas' Republican Senator Arthur Capper...
After suffering so much for suffrage, women were oddly hesitant about exercising their voting rights. Not until 1928, when Al Smith's Catholicism, Tammany Hall connections and anti-Prohibitionist sympathies roused a feminine stampede for Herbert Hoover, did as many as 50% of the eligible women cast their ballots...