Word: hooverness
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House, courted no publicity. He was almost unknown outside Washington and western New York. But when he announced his retirement from politics last week, many of his colleagues in Congress bade him farewell with a one word eulogy: statesman. President Truman, ex-President Herbert Hoover, General Eisenhower, and many another national figure sent letters and telegrams of congratulation. General George Marshall flew to Rochester to pay tribute to him at a testimonial dinner...
...Latin quotations, leaning on the Good Book, explaining and apologizing to people who had been voting for him for decades. Apparently he had come to regard his independent-liberal reputation as something of a campaign liability. Sure he had fought for labor's rights, said Tobey, but Herbert Hoover was "my dear friend." Furthermore, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy wasn't really so bad-it was just his methods. As for some of his liberal votes, Tobey had still not deserted his old role as a scourge of the New Dealers...
After Brothman's arrest last week, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover gave a different version of Brothman's operations: Gold, who has pleaded guilty to espionage and is now talking freely, said that Brothman had been commended by a Russian official for doing work that was "equal to the efforts of one or two brigades...
Named by the American Alumni Council as the "American Alumnus of the Year": Herbert Hoover, Stanford...
...Herbert Hoover had set up RFC to lend $1.5 billion to ailing banks and industries. Then the Democrats fattened and pampered it like one of their own alphabetical children, bolstered its lending power to $18.8 billion, and put it into the wartime business of running rubber plants, Central American fiber plantations and steel mills...