Word: hooverness
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...since took for its own. Major Patterson was decorated for bravery in the A. E. F., served in the same division with, but barely knew, Colonel Henry Stimson. After World War I, when both were distinguished attorneys in Manhattan, they became firm friends. Soon after Henry Stimson became Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, able Republican Robert Patterson was appointed to the U. S. District bench in New York. Franklin Roosevelt last year upped him to the Second (New York, Connecticut, Vermont) Circuit Court of Appeals to succeed Judge Robert Manton, convicted of conspiring to sell decisions...
...Herbert Hoover, as a successful mining engineer and promoter, was a businessman. But for 15 years before his election he had been in public life...
...gift from "the Belgian people" to the Herbert Hoover Library at Stanford University went the $100,000, 35-bell, 6,916-lb. carillon of the Belgian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair...
...Nazi-Soviet Pact. But so successful was Soviet propaganda in selling Communism as the great & good friend of its archenemy, democracy, that nobody listened. Among these unheeded Cassandras was Henry C. Wolfe, small, bespectacled foreign correspondent and lecturer, who had flitted around Russia and Central Europe, first for the Hoover Relief, then for the Columbus Dispatch. He had also written The German Octopus, prophesying that the Nazis would soon be doing what they were soon doing...
...late at night, when they were taken over by operators who said "Huh?" or "0. K." Most of the delegates missed seeing the brief Mummers' Parade-a Philadelphia spectacle usually put on on New Year's Day, revived especially for the Convention-because it marched while Herbert Hoover spoke...