Word: hooverness
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...three decades, until Herbert Hoover laid her up to save money, presidential guests marveled at the Mayflower's black bathtub, carved from a single block of Italian marble (it was too small for outsize William Howard Taft). The Mayflower burned and sank in 1931, was salvaged, served in World War II as a Navy and Coast Guard training ship...
Last week into Domei's Tokyo offices stomped U.S. officers with an order from the Supreme Commander to close up shop (see INTERNATIONAL). Then Colonel Donald Hoover, censorship officer of U.S. counter intelligence, summoned Jap news chiefs and read them the riot...
...Wilson found him no friend. Hiram harangued the Senate until U.S. adherence to the League of Nations was dead. In 1920, Johnson stubbornly ignored G.O.P. demands that he be Harding's running mate, later sulked when Coolidge succeeded to the White House. Unpredictable as ever, he supported Herbert Hoover in 1928, turned against him for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, turned against Roosevelt on the World Court fight and the Third Term...
...good neighbor" relations with Russia in 1937, as delegate to the League of Nations obtained Russia's expulsion for her attack in 1939; after an abdominal operation; in Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Holsti saved his country from starvation after World War I by a successful appeal to Herbert Hoover for food. When Nazi domination of Finnish affairs sent him packing in 1940 he found refuge as a professor at Hoover's Stanford University. Generally credited for Finland's prompt war-debt payments, he had a practical foreign policy: "A small country can never have too many friends...
...inspected the 3rd Armored Division (lined up along a dusty road near Neu Isenburg) and the 84th Infantry Division (standing at stiff attention along another road near Weinheim). When he asked Sergeant Wayne B. Hoover, of Andover, O., how long he had been there and whether he wanted to go home, all young Hoover could do was gulp emotionally. Said President Truman to his homesick occupation troops: "I hope when you come home you will find home as you want...