Word: hooverness
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...Next day Bob Taft fired back: "Every policy of his Administration has increased prices." Clearly, both were against high prices. Just as clearly, Truman had picked Taft for his campaign target. As Franklin Roosevelt had always campaigned against Herbert Hoover, no matter who the Republican candidate was, Harry Truman meant to run against Bob Taft in 1948, whoever the Republican candidate might...
...Clark for failure to act. Clark had insisted that a thorough, preliminary probe by the FBI had turned up no grounds for federal action (i.e., no conspiracy to deprive a voter of his rights in a federal election). But before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover testified that his investigation had been specifically restricted by Clark to examining the data uncovered by two Star reporters and four Kansas City election commissioners...
...unless millions of people under our Lags are to die of starvation." But the problem was bigger than any single staggering bill for aid. U.S. aid might forestall successive emergencies; it could not solve the world economic crisis. In time the continuous financial hemorrhage must debilitate U.S. economy. This, Hoover implied, was Russia's calculated policy...
...threat to be met? In Western Europe, said Hoover, by restoring (under suitable supervision) the productive capacity of Germany, Europe's industrial powerhouse. In Asia, by restoring the productive power of Japan...
...agreement made at Potsdam. She would have to bring England and France along, or risk a serious breach with them. A separate peace with Germany would mean the withdrawal of troops from the U.S. zone leaving it as an unprotected area adjoining the heavily garrisoned Russian zone. Herbert Hoover clearly meant his proposal to be a last resort; but he pointed out that time was running out fast...