Word: hooverness
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...people had not been talked to like that in a long time. LaGuardia's shrill scolding made them wince-momentarily, at least. But they still paid scant attention to the grave admonitions of Herbert Hoover, from that faraway, hungry continent of Europe (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Herbert Hoover trudged wearily through Warsaw's ruins, soup kitchens, orphans' homes. In Hoover Square, Poland's grateful tribute to him after World War I, he saw how his statue had been destroyed by German grenades. But the heavy-jowled old man, who had brought succor to Europe a quarter-century ago, was still building something more substantial than a marble monument. Restlessly, unsparing of his age, he scourged the world's conscience...
...digging themselves out of the greatest political, intellectual and moral destruc tion ever known. . . . A Polish woman remarked to me today, 'We are weary of dying'. . . . It is a forbidding picture, but with food until the next harvest, Poland can rise again." The Responsibility. From Warsaw Hoover hurried on to Helsinki, then to London. A continent's anguish cried out through him as he spoke to an international emergency conference on European grain supplies: "Hunger sits at the table thrice daily in hundreds of millions of homes. . . . The world uses the words 'starvation...
Podin served in Puerto Rico as Commissioner of Education from 1930 to 1936. He was appointed to that post by President Hoover and reappointed in 1934 by President Roosevelt, and is at present editor in chief of the D. C. Health Publishing Company...
...beer shortages, grumbled slightly over the one roll per customer they found on some restaurant tables. It was still too early to tell how well housewives were responding to Government and private appeals to save breadstuffs and fats. Apparently it would take something stronger than the strongest appeals of Hoover and LaGuardia to stop the march of starvation...