Word: hooverness
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...walrussy Chief Justice William Howard Taft, suspicious of President Herbert Hoover's intervals of liberalism, wrote...
...thinking of an era now as dead as its fringed surreys, gas lamps and stereopticons; an old man whose many hates included tobacco and Jews (tobacco smoke sent him into tantrums; he alone refused to sign a farewell testimonial from the Court to Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis; when Hoover appointed Benjamin Cardozo he reputedly roared: "What! Another Jew?" and ostentatiously rattled a newspaper while Cardozo was being sworn...
...William R. Castle, Under Secretary of State under President Hoover, who agreed with Colonel Lindbergh that...
...this point, with G-Man J. Edgar Hoover rather red around the ears, FBI took over from the F. B. I., jailed Crandall and Haynes, turned off the spotlight...
...facts and conditions of U. S. aid were less important than its shift from worried apathy into tentative action. For weeks Herbert Hoover, urging aid specifically for the small nations of Poland, Finland, Norway, Holland, Belgium, has been preaching that U. S. ingenuity can somehow find a way to feed Hitler's victims in conquered countries without aiding Adolf Hitler...