Word: hooverness
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...Edgar Hoover as a cruel example for your humor, with no regard for the truth, was inexcusable. Your apology was less than frank. Public cynicism toward the press no doubt stems from the fact that papers like TIME, when departing from truth in order to wisecrack, are disinclined to make the apology as broad as the original insult; thus you compound the evil. As friend and attorney for Mr. Hoover I write to say that your crack could have no result but to undermine the standing of J. Edgar Hoover as a unique, law-enforcing official, one who has impressed...
...TIME admits it; has already [Nov.4] printed its "sincere apologies" to Mr. Hoover...
...Slichter, Lamont University Professor and a prime mover in the Committee for Economic Development, drew an analogy between the Democratic success in 1932 and the GOP sweep on Tuesday. "Every party has its blind spots," he explained. "One of the things which contributed most to the rejection of Hoover in 1933 was that he couldn't visualize adequately the problems of the unemployed and was very slow in getting the Government to help with relief. Now the Democrats have been in office long enough to get into some ruts--to develop some blind spots. One big blind spot...
...This is Hell." And Boston appreciated -as few other U.S. cities would-the furious forthrightness he demonstrated as Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover. He admired Hoover (although he had been a Democrat until 1920). He took it upon himself to praise him publicly at a time when White House relations with Congress were strained...
...same time, Adams fought Hoover's reductions of naval appropriations vehemently. Neither the marvels of politics, nor four years of proximity to naval pomp and naval braid caused any alteration of his habits. He ate lunch daily in the Navy Building cafeteria, after standing in a line of clerks and stenographers and carrying his own tray to a table. Once, when motion picture cameramen asked him to sit down and write something while they photographed him, he pulled out a pen, thoughtfully scribbled "This is hell. . . this is hell. . . this is hell...