Word: hooverness
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Moscow's controlled press screeched at Herbert Hoover, only living ex-President of the U.S., last week. One Jacob Viktorov, an editorial writer on Pravda, caterwauled at Mr. Hoover in notes just flat of high C. Shrilled Viktorov, after the New York Times published four critical essays by Herbert Hoover on the San Francisco World Security Conference...
...President had signed it. Now that RFC's billions were out of Henry Wallace's reach, there was nothing much to do but confirm him as Secretary of Commerce. The Senate did-56-to-32. Wallace set out to be the greatest Secretary of Commerce since Herbert Hoover...
...Russian publications go, Soviet War and the Working Class circulation is small (200,000); but as a triggerman for Soviet targets abroad (Herbert Hoover, Chiang Kaishek, Pope Pius XII, John L. Lewis) the magazine is closely watched by diplomats and newsmen. Last week its first English-language edition had arrived in London by air-to be followed fortnightly by 20,000 copies for distribution in the U.S., the British Empire, Latin America, the Middle East and China...
...promptly tackled Albert B. ("Teapot Dome") Fall, then Secretary of the Interior, who was pushing hard for legislation to make the Indians Christians and also to open all of their lands to squatters. Fall's laws never passed, and Collier hoped for better times under President Herbert Hoover. But in John Collier's bitter summary, "Hoover didn't give a damn about the Indians either." New Deal for Redskins. By the time the New Deal had come to Washington, Collier was the No.11 U.S. spokesman for the often exploited, inevitably neglected Indian. "Terrible Harold" Ickes...
Instigators were Democrat J. William Fulbright, former Rhodes Scholar and Arkansas University president, Republican H. Alexander Smith, onetime Buchmanite, Hoover Relief staffer, now an internationally-minded lawyer. They called their colleagues together, drafted the letter, got it approved by Senate leaders of both parties. It was signed by all freshmen Senators, ten Democrats and six Republicans...