Search Details

Word: hooverness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, chief of the recently created Central Pacific Command; Vice Admiral J. H. Hoover and his opposite number, Major General Willis Henry Hale, chiefs respectively of landbased Navy and Army aircraft; Rear Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, who directs Spruance's amphibious operations; Marine Major General Holland Smith, boss of the Marine and Army troops that Turner puts ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Year of Attack | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

What do you think, Hoover?" Student Hoover, a senior, disputed the freshman's judgment. But he lingered to talk to her of other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of a Lady | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Three years later. Herbert Hoover, then a young mining engineer in Australia, sped back to Palo Alto to marry Lou Henry. They spent their honeymoon on a ship to China, en route to his new job as director of China's mines. Thereafter, for twelve years, Lou Henry Hoover made homes all over the world-Peking, Tientsin, Tokyo, Mandalay, Australia, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Paris, London. By the time her first son, Herbert Jr., was three years old he had been around the world three times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of a Lady | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

First Lady. When the Hoovers moved into the White House in 1929, Lou Hoover was the most cosmopolitan First Lady of this century. She tore the executive mansion apart, refurbished it from top to bottom, much of it with the Hoovers' own money. She entertained on a more lavish scale than any of her predecessors. In Forty-Two Years in the White House, Chief Usher Irwin ("Ike") Hoover decribed a normal day's schedule: "A large lunch, a tea or two, possibly one at four-thirty and another at five-thirty, and a dinner of from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of a Lady | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Died. Lou Henry Hoover, 68, 31st First Lady; of a heart attack; in Man hattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Previous | 544 | 545 | 546 | 547 | 548 | 549 | 550 | 551 | 552 | 553 | 554 | 555 | 556 | 557 | 558 | 559 | 560 | 561 | 562 | 563 | 564 | Next