Word: hooverness
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Until he cooled slightly on the G.O.P.'s congressional leaders after the Taft-Hartley Act, Big Bill also kept the pot boiling as the champion of Republicanism in labor. He was chairman of the Hoover and Landon labor committees, was mentioned in 1944 as a possible Republican vice-presidential candidate. A good twenty-five years ago, he revised the Brotherhood's entrance ritual to exclude Communists...
...civilian agents move at will between here and Moscow." This was a direct slap at a respected State Department functionary named Mrs. Ruth B. Shipley. Washington politicos reacted with the same horrified fascination they might have felt if the Senator had kicked a baby-or criticized J. Edgar Hoover...
...Mass., he is a self-made man who began as a clerk, rose to the presidency of A.T.& T. by the time he was 40. Quiet and retiring, he is a veteran of wartime posts in government consulting agencies, served as the first U.S. relief administrator under President Herbert Hoover during the depression. A Republican, he was picked with State Department concurrence. Though by inclination he avoids entertaining, he has studiously cultivated British ministers, has doggedly applied himself to learning the embassy's ropes. As a good-will ambassador to the British public, Gifford is not as effective...
Representatives of 75 professional, scientific and learned societies across the land cited Herbert Hoover as "the most illustrious member" of the engineering profession...
...corner." On the Democratic side, word got around Washington that Harry Truman was saying privately that Ike was a real gentleman and a great man-but the President hoped Ike wouldn't run because he is an amateur politician and look what happened to Amateurs Herbert Hoover and Henry Wallace...