Word: hooverness
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...apartment high above midtown Manhattan, Clare Boothe -- America's most photogenic intellectual--was blasting some of the arguments used to oppose the Hoover Plan for feeding the five small democracies. "Of course it may help the Germans, but it will help as a great deal more. By starving those peoples we will be developing a race of weaklings completely unfit for operating a liberal democracy...
Having put this point across the chic blonde whose personal appearance belies her cranial capacity leaned back and lit her fourth cigarrette. She explained that she would not be able to come up to Harvard to speak in support of the Hoover Plan because she and her hus-husband. "Time"-publisher Henry Luce, were leaving the following week for Chung-king...
...vital winter months of 1916-17. Before the declaration of war, when the nation and the President thought there was still a chance of peace, the seven men devised a system of purchasing war supplies, planned a press censorship, designed a system of food control (even selected Herbert Hoover as its director), determined on daylight saving (then revolutionary), discussed the draft, and in effect, revised the Government...
...YORK--Former President Herbert Hoover, asserting that the nation is lacking in unity, warned tonight that the "least perilous road" for the United sates in the current crisis is to give all possible war materials to Britain--but without conveys...
...Hoover addressed the nation over a nationwide radio network. He said it was his duty to speak on the basis if experience obtained as former commander-in-chief of the armed forces and as a member of the nation's war council in the last...