Word: hooverness
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...present Administration is going to try it." ¶ Democratic National Chairman Steve Mitchell, off on a twelve-day speaking tour through the West, said in Tacoma, Wash, that by helping elect a "giveaway" Government in November, independents who voted Republican had "helped to turn the clock back to Hoover." ¶ An unofficial party auxiliary, the C.I.O. Political Action Committee, reported that it was keeping a record of how much time Dwight Eisenhower spends golfing and fishing. "We are not implying any criticism or any suggestion that he isn't working hard enough," a P.A.C. spokesman ex plained...
...brand-new newspaper: Children's Times ("The Complete Newspaper for Boys & Girls"). The 10? semimonthly, 20-page tabloid, put out by Manhattan's Leader Enterprises Inc., had something for almost every child's taste. Among the features: the story of a schoolboy named Ed Hoover, who couldn't make the football team but grew up to be director of the FBI; a how-to-do-it section on teaching your parakeet to talk ("When he trusts you, he will perch on your finger while you take him out of the cage"); "Railroad Whistle Talk," i.e., what...
TIME and Apostle Benson apparently accept the McKinley-Hoover philosophy of the inequality of man-that the man who uses his hands, whether with a machine or in the soil, should not be considered a participant in the bounty of America. It is conveniently forgotten that the farmer's aid from Government is an infinitesimal fraction of the great bounties bestowed upon manufacturing and business interests from Grant to Hanna and from Lodge to Hoover...
...born on Jan. 19, 1905* in a frame house on a quiet street shaded by hackberry trees, the second of Isaac and Emma Hoover Culp's seven children. Her mother named her Oveta (an Indian word for forget) after a character in a romantic novel, and because it rhymed so pleasantly with Juanita, the name of the first Culp daughter. Mother Culp is a remote cousin of Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover; at 72, she still leads an active life in Killeen, fishing, gardening, and driving her own Buick. Ike Culp was a rawboned, fiery-tempered lawyer, a Baptist...
...Charley Dawes. In World War I, he handled the purchase of more than ten million ship tons of supplies for Europe. Under Harding, he was an economizing Director of the Budget, ran his own bureau for almost half of its $225,000 appropriation ("We took our own medicine"). Under Hoover, he served as Ambassador to Britain and helped to draft the Administration's war-debt moratorium after the '29 crash...