Word: hooverness
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...late vacuum-cleaner tycoon, William Henry Hoover, made a fortune out of helping to clean man's material house. To help clean man's spiritual house as well, Hoover left $50,000 to the Disciples of Christ "for the publication of writings on Christian unity." But in 1945, after 13 years of such propaganda, the Disciples decided that the money could best be used for a lectureship on the same significant subject. The Disciples Divinity House at the University of Chicago was made sponsor...
...before, there were others breathing down his neck: Ohio's Bricker and Taft, California's Warren, Michigan's Vandenberg, Minnesota's Stassen, Massachusetts' Lodge. As for the Democrats-now Harry Truman's troubles would be the same as those which confronted Hoover after...
...Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party. The father of Senator Robert Taft had spent two particularly anguished years of deadlock. A sick and beaten Woodrow Wilson had watched an antagonistic Republican Senate reject his League. Hapless Herbert Hoover had scolded and quarreled while a Democratic House hamstrung him throughout the desperate end of his divided Administration...
They had their mandate, but they could not merely pick up where they had left off in the Hoover days of 1930. The nation, and the world, had changed...
...Washington, one of the capital's most striking relatives back in the Herbert Hoover era broke into the papers again with a bang (and a Hat) the day after the great Republican landslide. Photographed with Bess Truman at the Washington Club was Dolly Gann, onetime vice presidential sister, whose brave struggles in the capital's social war used to make national news...