Word: hooverness
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...said a. guest, "where's J. Edgar Hoover...
...host who entered was not Hoover but Federal Trade Commissioner Lowell Mason; he had paid $84 out of his own pocket for the luncheon, including the roses, currently selling at the summer bargain price of 72? a dozen. With Mason were familiar capital figures: New Jersey's lumbering Senator Albert Hawkes, Presidential Economic Adviser Edwin Nourse, White House Aide Charles Murphy, New York's Congressman Frederic Coudert. There was one stranger, a fierce-eyed, one-armed man whom nobody knew...
...lifetime Republican and close personal friend of Herbert Hoover, Dr. Poling was among the first churchmen to declare, when war came in 1939, that "there is no isolation or neutrality any more." From then on he was Franklin Roosevelt's man. On one occasion, Roosevelt called him "America's spiritual ambassador of good will" to front-line troops of all the Allies. His son, Clark, was one of the U.S. chaplains killed in World War II.* His latest extracurricular activity: membership in President Truman's committee on universal military training...
...Chief J. Edgar Hoover briefly enjoyed a place on the "Best Fathers of the Year" list assembled by the American Mothers Committee, until the committee belatedly learned that he is a bachelor, scratched...
...Hoover. 4. Vandenberg...