Word: hooverness
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Said earnest, foodwise Herbert Hoover, to the Farm Bureau Federation in Manhattan: "If the war in Europe should come to an end within the next twelve months we should have no consequential food supplies with which to meet three or four hundred millions of starving people...
...Hoover called for consolidation of food production and distribution under one administrator; abolition of parities, of retail and wholesale price ceilings (his answer: fix prices close to the farm); an increase in farm manpower by ordering drafted farmers back to the land-"with their uniforms," when needed...
...those who shudder at food shortages now, ex-President Hoover said: "Our cities will have less food during the next winter and spring even than they had in the last few months...
...obvious that Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson are in a complete fog about the past. . . . These are a series of sour stories about the European peoples who had the impertinence to defeat the Germans in the First World War. . . . How does it happen that Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson, so severe on states that are stumbling blocks to their neighbors, have hardly a word to say against Germany? This book is full of propaganda, direct and indirect, in favor of the common enemy. . . . There are hints that the United Nations are really as bad as anybody else...
...somewhat appalled by the spectacle of an English citizen assaulting the former President of the United States. But I would remind the reader that the problems Mr. Hoover discusses are bone of my bone as well as of his, and that in our common peril I believe it is my right to differ with Mr. Hoover in print as I did with Mr. Chamberlain over Munich...