Word: hooverness
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...passed up Herbert Hoover, newly elected to put two chickens in every pot?because 1928 was the businessmen's year and Walter P. Chrysler was their symbol. When Business crashed in 1929 we passed by Hoover again, skipped over Explorer Byrd and Peace-Pacter Kellogg in favor of Owen D. Young, just back from Paris with his hopeful plan for settling Europe's troubles...
...armistice, but an instant conditional peace imposed by advance agreement between the United Nations. This, said Hoover, would enable the world to turn at once to the problems of recovery...
...general peace conference, but a period in which war revenge and hatred could cool off and lasting solutions be worked out separately by commissions representing the dominant nations. The significant Hoover contribution was that he not only seconded the cooling off period but proposed interim action. He named six minimum conditions to a conditional peace: total disarmament of the enemy, designation of provisional boundaries, machinery for repatriation of prisoners and civilians, removal of economic blockades, immediate famine relief and provisional restoration of commercial treaties...
...Hoover's design for future peace moved him a long step from the isolationist thinking that permeated his own party before Pearl Harbor. Last spring he had made a clean break, lined up for U.S. world participation in his book The Problems of a Lasting Peace, jointly written with Diplomat Hugh Gibson (TIME, July 6). Last week, in his speech before the Chicago Executives Club, he was substantially in agreement with the broad world program of men like Sumner Welles, Henry Wallace, Anthony Eden...
Said Herbert Hoover: "When victory comes after this war, we must jointly with our allies again try to lead the world to the promised land across this terrible maelstrom of conflicting forces...