Word: hooverness
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...would be very glad to see Mr. Willkie (who had said in Philadelphia that he would be delighted to see Mr. Roosevelt). The correspondents marked a Roosevelt-Willkie conference large in their future-books, remembered that President-elect Roosevelt in 1932 was similarly called in by Herbert Hoover...
...after the keynote that wasn't quite the keynote came Herbert Hoover. Even now the delegates came with solemn hope they would get a chance to tear up their chairs and set fire to their hats. They were more than willing to give him the benefit of all their doubts; they were eager to hear him demolish the New Deal; they were even more eager to cheer some challenging declaration of faith. But inflexible Mr. Hoover mushmouthed his delivery; the clear, hot words of his finest address got lost (as always) deep in his bulldog chops. He stood there...
...were daily comparing the nomination of anyone but Willkie to the Fall of France-Ray Clapper, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Krock, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Lippmann, Westbrook Pegler, Hugh Johnson. Even the coldest, toughest of all, nail-hard Frank Kent told them flatly in his old-shrew style that, while Herbert Hoover was the best man, Wendell Willkie was the only winning candidate...
...Lovejoy believes that it is good for a student to work his way through college, points out as exemplars Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul V. McNutt, Dartmouth's President Ernest Martin Hopkins, U. S. Senator Claude Pepper, Minnesota's Governor Harold Stassen, Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium, Cinemactor Fredric March, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Pollster George Gallup. Self-supporting U. S. college students (about half of all undergraduates), he reports, earn $32,500,000 a year, get some $90,000,000 a year in scholarships or loans. Most...
...boat to Mexico he made friends with Hart Crane, "a generous, warmhearted person, obviously drinking hard because of intense unhappiness." R. S. loved liquor, France, poetry, music, ribald talk, the division of his life between teaching and research, and the sound of his own voice. He profoundly admired Herbert Hoover for his relief work-"It is too bad he became only a President later on." He bitterly despised Soviet Russia: ". . . The governing mob cared little in those days [1923] about a hundred thousand lives more or less...