Word: hooverness
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...council looked good. But the U. S. had listened to Herbert Hoover when he insisted that boards, councils, conferences would not do the job-one man had to have the power. From the White House came the answer. Big Bill Knudsen, bowing to the President with Old-World courtesy, straightened up to ask bluntly: "Who's boss?" "I am," said Franklin Roosevelt...
James Walker fellowship to Paul C. Hoover 1G, of Millersville...
...Deal has spent 60 billion dollars-seven billions on national defense-and still in an hour of peril the U. S. was weak. No Issue has to be the truth: an Issue only has to seem true. (Examples: 1928-Al Smith would let Rome run the country; 1932-Herbert Hoover would let the U. S. starve...
...stories were the smoothest smearing jobs done since the Brain Trust worked on Paul McNutt (TIME, March 25), the most thorough on any Republican since sly old Charley Michelson took his stiletto out of Herbert Hoover's back...
...Hoover. To people everywhere in the world last week, men of experience looked good, and even Herbert Hoover, looked a little better. Mr. Hoover, in a broadcast from New York, drew three lessons from the past: 1) experts in manufacturing, industry, labor, transportation, agriculture are essential in a procurement program; 2) board, councils, committees are worthless: one man must control industrial production; 3) politicians must be kept out of the defense pie. Stressing unity of purpose, Mr. Hoover underlined economic regeneration of the U. S. as a prime defense requirement...