Word: hooverness
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...Light, built that into a $71,000,000 colossus. Meantime he had acquired large interests in the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway and the Kansas City Southern, consolidated the lines. With his close friend Joe Robinson, late Majority Leader of the Senate, he had Arkansas politics by the short hair. President Hoover made him a director of RFC in 1932, and Roosevelt kept him on till he resigned...
Last week Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. was an able young geophysicist. This week he is becoming an important defense manufacturer. To his Consolidated Engineering Corp., big Sperry Gyroscope Co. turned over one whole branch of its business: instruments to measure vibration and strain (in airplanes, ships...
...almost been forgotten. In 1934 in the midst of a wave of public righteousness Hugo LaFayette Black, then Senator from Alabama with a preternaturally sharp nose for scandals, "exposed" the mail-carrying airlines of the U.S. Black charged that Walter Folger ("High-Hat"*) Brown, Postmaster General under Herbert Hoover, had granted lush mail-subsidy contracts to major airlines, had thus evaded the law requiring competitive bidding for Government contracts. The President did not wait to ask questions. He called in Postmaster General Farley, Attorney General Cummings, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of War Dern. Then he canceled the airmail contracts...
Since I was rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Kittanning, Pa. (1927-36) ... I take personal responsibility for having introduced the new prayer in Mr. Gilpin's home parish. But let Mr. Gilpin recall 1) that Mr. Hoover was President at that time, and 2) that I was a Democrat in politics in Kittanning at that time...
Equally striking was the indirect evidence of a new trend of press feeling. Also by the Twohey figures, the editorial comment on Secretary Knox's rip-roaring speech for using the Navy to clear the seas was 53% against to 25% for. But ex-President Hoover's speech saying that Germany's attack on Russia made the whole argument for the U.S. going to war a "Gargantuan jest" (TIME, July 7) won applause from 58% of the press-more than has applauded him in years-and criticism from only...