Word: hooverness
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...triangular area a mile on each side was being graded and landscaped at a cost of $4,000,000. The old Washington airport (tailed the "Hoover Airport" in pre-New Deal days) was flooded to make a lagoon that would enhance the vista from the War Department. Upwards of 1,000 trucks and bulldozers were on the job. From its start in September until its completion in the spring, the landscaping project will have employed an average of 1,000 men each day. The number of man-hours necessary to beautify the land around the Pentagon was estimated unofficially...
...well as any Japanese naval officer. He was a language officer in the U.S. in 1913 and studied law at Harvard for seven months. He even took courses at the War College. In 1928 he commanded a Japanese training squadron which visited Annapolis, was received by President Hoover. As naval attaché in Washington (1920-23), he assisted at the Washington Conference and was all tact. He always remembered Americans' birthdays, and always remembered to tell the story of the little cemetery in Japan where some shipwrecked U.S. sailors were buried, whose graves were perpetually and tenderly cared...
...Manhattan last week the Food Administrator of World War I spoke grimly. Said Herbert Hoover: "We need to face the hard facts and secure a remedy. And at once. Food supply has become secondary only to military operations in determining the outcome...
...remedies for labor shortages Elder Statesman Hoover called for the import of Mexicans, stopping the draft of farm workers, furloughs for farm-bred soldiers during harvests. Prices must be high enough to encourage production; vaguely, he added, retail ceilings should be abandoned in favor of fixed prices "as near the farm as possible...
...reason for Tresidder's election is his good relations with Washington-in sharp contrast to those of Stanford Trustee Herbert Hoover and his onetime Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wilbur. Said a Tresidder friend last week: "He knows the department heads and he knows their politics. He'll be able to tie Stanford into national affairs. Tresidder even gets along fine with Ickes, and if that doesn't mean he's got tact, nothing does...