Word: hooverness
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Kentucky's Fourth Congressional District, where Abraham Lincoln was born, last week voted Republican for the second time in its history (first time: in the 1928 Hoover sweep). It was ready to go Republican anyway. But with J. Dan Talbott as the Democratic candidate in a Congressional by-election, the Fourth gave the G.O.P. a landslide...
citizens paid out in relief through Herbert Hoover's committee after World...
...been active in the Big Brother and Big Sister movements ("There are no delinquent children, only delinquent parents"). He pioneered with Margaret Sanger in the American Birth Control League long before such participation was respectable. He is a director of the National Crime Prevention Institute. Ex-President Hoover appointed him a member of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. Secretary Harold Ickes put him on the Housing Commission. He is a regional arbitrator on the National War Labor Board...
...third largest margin in New Jersey's history, the Republicans took over the governorship from Democrat Charles Edison-who didn't seem to mind. Wealthy, 69-year-old Walter Evans Edge (Hoover's Ambassador to France, ally of the senior Henry Cabot Lodge in the Senate fight against the League of Nations) piled a plurality of 128,000 votes over Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, supported by Jersey City's Frank Hague, the Communists, A.F. of L., C.I.O., and Frank Sinatra...
...expert Herbert Feis it was once said "he looks like Harpo and talks like Karl Marx." The Harpo crack is an exaggeration, the Karl part a misunderstanding. Feis, a Hoover holdover, loves fast conversation and the intellectual paradox, but, stripped of provocative verbiage, his opinions would be generally acceptable. Never a New Dealer, he belongs to none of Washington's "ideological" factions...