Word: hooverness
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Then Herbert Hoover set forth a plan that completely about-faced the American program for Germany. Heavy industries are no longer the scape-goat of post-war planning but receive the coal with which Potsdam had intended to bolster Allied countries, French recovery receives a staggering set-back under the new plan, for Germany now retains 79 percent of its own mined coal and the Saar mines fall far short of the production needed to smelt down Alsace Lorraine ore. France must either pay $22 per ton for American coal or do without the fourteen million tons her industries lack...
Name? Occupation? In Raleigh, N.C., the local Young Democrats Club elected as its new president one Hoover Taft. In Syracuse, N.Y., a juvenile court warrant placed a piggy-bank-robbery charge against Moppet Jesse James...
...Herbert Hoover, back at his desk in Manhattan, was "well on the way to recovery" from shingles...
...Subservience before the boss is a talent of statesmanship which Harry Truman mastered to perfection. Endless readiness to serve his Wall Street master-this is what finally took the small Missourian to the White House. . . . Let Vandenberg, Byrnes, Dulles, Hoover manager him, and let Clark Clifford . . . write his speeches for him. Let Truman only read them tolerably well. Thus Harry Truman has become the clerk of American imperialism. . . . He no longer says, as formerly, that he never takes political decisions without consulting his wife. He knows now with whom to consult! . . . In his squeaky voice already is heard the sound...
...economy. Its actions in removing almost all economic controls, its drive to waken the trade unions, its failure to use the report of the President's Economic Advisory Council as a basis for constructive action are evidence of a philosophy that should have disappeared from Washington when Hoover left the White House in 1933. But that philosophy has returned, and so has Hoover...