Word: hooverness
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Small, swarthy, horn-rimmed Monte Proser has the somewhat weary, harassed countenance of many men who have endured and survived Broadway and Hollywood show business. Born in London, he came to the U.S. at 14, was Food Administrator Herbert Hoover's office boy during World War I. He has also been a stable boy, peanut salesman, barker and roustabout for Snapp Brothers' Circus, paid promoter of theatricals on Long Island and in Yellowstone Park. As a Hollywood press agent he plugged Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented...
...food, clothing, and medical supplies it would seem that even the most extreme of isolationists and interventionists could unite. The isolationists are on no more solid ground in damning it as an "emotional alignment" (a la their late-lamented Walter Millis) than are their opponents in fighting the Hoover food plan as a device to help Hitler. The drive was clearly, simply, one to ease dreadful suffering and deprivation. Harvard's niggardly response was a disappointment and a disgrace...
...last six months I have remained aside from the controversy on whether we should join in this war." So said Herbert Hoover last week breaking his silence on the great issue. Then, speaking on a nationwide broadcast, he told where he stood: against convoys and against going to war. Unlike Colonel Lindbergh his reasoning was not that the War was none of the U.S.'s business, nor that Britain was bound to lose. Said...
Only President Roosevelt, by position, experience, current information, could answer ex-President Hoover. The President was sick and silent...
...Nobody can intelligently say what ought to be done who doesn't have all the facts at their command. But if the Hoover facts are accurate and the ships are available I can see no good reason for opposing the plan...