Word: hooverness
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...greater tribute to the American system need be written than the rise to the Presidency of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert C. Hoover and Harry S. Truman...
...cities, the prestige of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had sunk lower than the Yangtze. An American traveler in Shanghai wrote home: "His name is mud in all classes-they feel toward him as Americans felt toward Herbert Hoover in 1933." The U.S. Embassy was evacuating Americans as fast as it could. In the U.S. itself headlines flared the black news. China-and what to do about it-was Page One; Asia's howitzers could now be heard in Kansas City, although the U.S. still had only a very partial notion of how big its stake was in the China...
...Republican Party should become a party of conservatives, would it ever win another election? Dewey's popular vote was only a shade larger than Herbert Hoover's, despite the fact that a whole generation of voters had grown up since 1928. But in the opinion of Ohio's Bob Taft (who was vacationing in Rome), the Republicans had only to hang on. Said Taft: "[The party] should present a constructive program . . . opposing every unnecessary addition to the totalitarian powers of the federal government. The fallacies and dangers of the Administration's economic and control policies will...
...reduce the amount of money at the disposal of, consumers, not to reduce tax rates as the Republicans did in the inflationary periods of the twenties and as the 80th Congress did in 1948; and the manner of the ballasting the economy in depression and deflation is not the Hoover policy of economy, but the Roosevelt policy of deficit financing...
...Since Hoover's day, a Roosevelt, or New Deal, generation of voters has grown up. The voters of this generation voted, in 1948, for a continuation of social security, a continuation of reclamation, TVAs, AECs, SECs and EGAs; for Government help for farmers and labor; for Government supervision of banks and business practices; for federal aid in housing and education. The people, in effect, had voted for themselves...