Word: hooverness
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...rate committee's large, bright room at 99 John Street hangs the brass ship's bell salvaged from the President Hoover after it was stranded on a Japanese island in 1937-at a cost of $2,500,000 to U.S. insurance companies. Biggest single risk assumed to date was $7,000,000 on a ship which got through from the Far East to the U.S. Biggest single loss was $3,000,000 on a cargo of fine Mediterranean tobacco which went down with the Greek tramp Petalli when the Nazis bombed the Piraeus last spring. Last week...
Reaction to the Hull statement from U.S. isolationists was loud and immediate. Herbert Hoover demanded to know if the U.S. had "lost all sense of human and moral proportions." Said Senator Robert A. Taft: "We will be deeply ashamed in all time to come...
...daughter of a naval officer, I was the especial object of Mr. Hoover's attention. Fixing me with an eye as compelling as the Ancient Mariner's, he would demand accusingly: "Do you realize that the cost of firing a gun just once would feed all the undernourished children in the United States for a whole year...
Once I ventured meekly to suggest that the best way to prevent crime was not to abolish the police force but to maintain an adequate and well-trained one. Gazing at me pityingly, Mr. Hoover turned to the rest of the class and remarked with clinical detachment: "In Miss Willson, young women, you have a perfect example of economic predetermination...
...could not believe in the Depression, pointing derisively to jampacked cinema houses and highways full of colliding cars, until -so one story goes-friends showed him a bread line; then he was visibly moved. What would the Mencken who made such scathing fun of "Dr. Coolidge" and "Dr. Hoover" have thought of the Mencken of 1936, who traipsed along in a Landon parade? "Dr. Roosevelt" had simply replaced Drs. Coolidge and Hoover, and Mencken was agin...