Word: hooverness
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Morgan's specialty is moody satire, his weakness elaborate puns. Among his best broadcasts was a take-off on Walter Winchell ("Aside to F.D.R., 'Not yet.' . . . Aside to Winston Churchill, 'Okay if you say so.' ... Aside to J. Edgar Hoover, 'What do you want me to do this week...
...first time since Pearl Harbor, Herbert Hoover stood up to tell the nation where he stands. Long in favor of aid-to-Britain but strongly against convoys and against getting into the war, he now wants victory first...
Said Herbert Hoover: "We must start our thinking with a disagreeable, cold, hard fact. That is, the economic measures necessary to win total war are just plain Fascist economics. . . . We want to so design our actions that these Fascist economic measures are not frozen into American life...
Negotiations continued on the hot little island of Martinique. There Rear Admiral John H. Hoover and the State Department's Samuel Reber conferred with Admiral Robert (TIME, May 18). There were other concessions which the State Department was determined to get, chiefly: supervision over some 70,000 tons of French merchant ships in the Caribbean trade; continued close supervision of the more than $200,000,000 in gold stored on the island; a U.S. observer for the radio station on Martinique...
...already had such an agreement with Admiral Robert-but it was pre-Laval. Now the U.S. asked Robert to sign on the dotted line all over again. It looked simple-behind Admiral Hoover and Sam Reber stood the massed strength of five nearby U.S. naval bases, strung between Trinidad and Puerto Rico. In Washington this week French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye said his Government (i.e., Laval) had not told him to protest...