Word: hooverness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Aubrey Fitch, 62, who made way for Mitscher and will become superintendent of the Naval Academy, where one of his first big chores will be to bring flight training to the school and make its graduates as air-wise as West Point's; sardonic Vice Admiral "Genial John" Hoover, 58, one of the Navy's crack administrators, who gets the staff job left vacant by Jack Towers; Rear Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 54, who will be taken from command of a battleship division and given an unannounced post ashore-probably Chief of the Bureau of Personnel...
...many patriots who have served their country well, but who by no means could be said to have dominated their times. They are John Adams, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, McKinley, Taft, Coolidge, and Hoover...
Famed for his work as prosecutor in the Teapot Dome scandal, genial, wide-mouthed Owen Roberts was a big-time Philadelphia corporation lawyer when Herbert Hoover called him to the high court in 1930. Promptly he found himself the deciding vote between the right and left factions of the pre-Roosevelt tribunal, as often as not sided with the left's dissenters. But as the turbulent 30s went by and seven Roosevelt appointees took their places on the bench, he became the court's chief defender of precedent and legal stability...
...Congress. His political career followed the typical small-town pattern: commonwealth (district) attorney, election to Congress (1922). In 1928, when he supported Al Smith, he went under in the Hoover landslide. But two years later he was back. He worked hard, carried the tax ball for the Ways & Means Committee, became known and famed as a fiscal expert. In 1937, after the Supreme Court had thrown out the Guffey Coal Act, Vinson studied the decision, wrote a new bill, made it stand...
...Congressman who argued strongly against the "Hoover amendment" was New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, who becomes Secretary of Agriculture and War Food Administrator next week. Said he: "I would not run from any responsibility, but I don't want to be a policeman...