Word: hooverness
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...Washington, leisurely "Mac" McReynolds is as deadly accurate as George Marshall would like his officers to be. Scottish and canny, he has worked in every department of the Government as payroll employe or efficiency expert since he left his law office in Battle Creek 34 years ago. For Herbert Hoover he helped draw the Government reorganization bills, saw them knifed by the Democratic majority, went to work for that majority when the New Deal came to town, as Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s administrative assistant. Impatient of tenseness, intolerant of hurry, he presides at NDAC meetings with a leg slung...
...believe Herbert Hoover remained in the Cabinet when he was campaigning for the Presidency, didn...
White House spokesmen took the same line, falling into a trap which Mr. Wallace had dug for himself. Republicans gleefully pointed out that Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover was nominated on June 14, 1928, offered almost immediately to quit, stayed on at Calvin Coolidge's persuasion until August 21, when he resigned. Embarrassed Mr. Wallace quickly changed tune, said he would do whatever was "right, fair and just...
...split clean in two, gave six of its twelve States to the Republican Party. Herbert Hoover that year won 72 electoral votes in the South, Al Smith 64. Engineer Hoover won 1,957,000 popular votes, Catholic Smith...
...White House played their part in the 1928 election, other things helped to defeat Smith: many a Southern voter turned thumbs down on liquor, on Tammany, on Manhattan's East Side, on New York City domination in general. The States that went for Hoover in 1928 were not the politically naïve backwoods regions that might have been expected to fear the Pope's shadow. They were North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas-which have their share of hillbillies but also, politically and industrially, harbor many of the South's most sophisticated areas...