Word: hooverness
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...afraid of us--well, you never can tell. Senator Wheeler also doesn't like the way this war is being conducted. Damning the Administration wherever possible, Senator Wheeler doesn't think that Congress should let the Army decide whether it needs to draft fathers for the service. Like Herbert Hoover, the Senator isn't too anxious to invade Europe to reach the Nazis. After all, Japan is our first enemy, and, moreover, Japan doesn't happen to be fighting Russia. After we defeat the Japs, well--the United Nations might decide to negotiate a peace with Hitler...
...Hoover Is Hoover. Apart from a chance meeting in Paris with Colonel McCormick, Ickes' war experience as a Y.M.C.A. field man was not unpleasant...
...presided (1920) over the last meeting "of the remnants of the Progressive rear guard," worked as Illinois campaign manager for Hiram Johnson as Republican nominee for President ("he would have made a great President") and shuddered when Coolidge won. When Hoover came on the scene ("to me Hoover has always been - well, Hoover") Ickes voted for Al Smith...
...YORK--Former President Herbert Hoover tonight proposed that the victorious United Nations strip the Axis powers of their airplane factories after the war and organize an international air police force to "keep the world free from aggression...
...Hoover said in an interview that "planes alone" could do the job of maintaining world order, thus allowing extensive land and sea disarmament while the world moves forward in aviation through a freedom of the air policy...