Word: hooverness
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...system of appointment for some Government employees. Steadily, but very slowly, the merit system spread within the U.S. Government. Its next sensational gain was made under Theodore Roosevelt, but even at the end of his Administration, little more than 60% of federal civilian employees had civil-service protection. Herbert Hoover extended it further until at the end of his term about 80% of employees were covered...
After this re-entry into the political arena, Harry Truman took a train to New York City to join Mrs. Truman and Margaret. He checked into suite 32-A in the Waldorf Towers, directly above Herbert Hoover's suite (31-A) and five floors directly below the suite (37-A) of Douglas MacArthur. He dropped down to the Waldorf barbershop to get a haircut, and let photographers snap him as he is rarely seen-without glasses...
Balding, 57-year-old Strauss (rhymes with laws) was brought up in Virginia and has never lost the courtly manner of the Old Dominion. At 21, Strauss got a job as private secretary to Herbert Hoover, who has been his close friend ever since. By the time he was 33, he had become a partner in the New York investment banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. In four years of World War II naval service as a procurement and ordnance officer, Strauss rose from lieutenant commander to rear admiral...
...animals . . ." Later, at the Rosenbergs' funeral in New York, Bloch vented more bitterness: "Insanity, irrationality, barbarism and murder seem to be part of the feeling of those who rule us . . . I place the murder of the Rosenbergs at the door of President Eisenhower, Mr. Brownell and J. Edgar Hoover...
Prohibition was such an all-pervasive issue that it shut off discussion of problems that turned out to be far more important. Prohibition polarized Congress, dominated the 1928 election, absorbed the White House, obsessed the press and smothered discussion of other grave questions of the Coolidge-Hoover period. The yatter over Prohibition died with Repeal. In 1953, the responsible leaders of the U.S. will not get public discussion back on the most important issues until they extinguish the McCarthyism debate by an equivalent of Repeal. Since serious people can hardly believe that Communism influences the present Administration, much ground...