Word: hooverness
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...public had not heard much about it, but the future of the Republican Party was quite possibly at stake. Politicians watched each little development as soldiers watched the news from Libya. The cast of characters was of the highest political stature: Franklin Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Hoover, Thomas E. Dewey, Alf Landon, Charles L. McNary, James A. Farley, Herbert H. Lehman, Joe Martin, and on down to a host of others...
...Guard or New? But a great deal more was involved. The Republican Party must now make up its mind to represent either its old bosses -the Hoover, Martin, Pew, Grundy, Landon crowd, or its new bosses, the people who believe in Wendell Willkie's leadership...
Thomas E. Dewey, New York's onetime racket-buster, was the gubernatorial candidate of the Old Guard. Alf Landon had a man checking in with the rural vote upstate to see if all was safe for Dewey. Herbert Hoover spent much time in New York, to be on hand to counsel...
...degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Frank Knox, Henry L Stimson, J. Edgar Hoover, Nicnolas Murray Butler...
These soberly humanitarian words were spoken last week, not by a New Dealer but by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce chairman who was Herbert Hoover's right-hand man in fighting the depression 13 years ago. Julius Howland Barnes is 69 now, and long since retired from the grain business in which he was once the biggest U.S. exporter. But last week he came back > into the news again with a plan for improving labor relations by giving first call on jobs to the neediest workmen—and paying them the union scale of $51 for a 60-hour shipyard...