Word: hooverness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Norman Meyer Judith Marsh, Wellesley James N. Miller Margaret Forsythe, Wellesley Maynard M. Miller Audrey Leighton, Wellesley Hills Richard G. Mintz Rosanne Saftil, Brookline Samuel J. Mixter Vallory Willis, New York Robert M. Moore, Jr. Kay Morley, Wellesley William S. Moore, Jr. Mary Blackwell, Farmington Berkeley D. More Sue Hoover, Wellesley Charles H. Morin Billie Loftus, Miss Wheelock's Clarendon Mower, Jr. Mary Anderson, Bradford Junior College James A. Murphy, Jr. Helen Eggart, Radcliffe Howard T. Oedel Carolyn Townsend, Walnut Hill School Harry O'Hare Pauline Callahan, Wellesley Shelby H. Page Polly Faulkner, Cambridge William B. Patterson Lee Deming, Smith...
...Pendergast-busting U. S. District Attorney Maurice M. Milligan. Keynoter: U. S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Liberal-Independents, meeting in the chapel, heard Socialist Professor Maynard Krueger. Battle broke out among the Republicans, housed in the gymnasium, when Missouri U.'s Hirst Mendenhall, a cousin of Herbert Hoover, tried to get elected convention chairman, was defeated by Westminster's John Stone. Their keynoter was former Missouri Governor Arthur M. Hyde...
...There is today a new home of crime in America," wrote Chief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover in February's American Magazine, "a new home of disease, bribery, corruption, crookedness, rape, white slavery, thievery and murder. Hence the terse order that goes out daily to law-enforcement agencies when criminals are on the loose: 'KEEP CLOSE WATCH ON TOURIST CAMPS...
This blast echoed at the convention of United Motor Courts (Eastern Division) and the eastern branch of International Motor Court Association last week at Miami Beach.* The 350 convening tourist-camp owners agreed to free their industry from rookery-seeking Romeos. As for the rest of Detective Hoover's indictment, one U. M. C. official snorted: "So it is 'Hoover again.' A little more...
Chief significance of the Hoover blast was the fact that hotel men had made and distributed thousands of reprints of it. For today the 25-year-old tourist-camp industry is a big business which is a rival of small-town hotels. In 1935 tourist camps took in $24,300,000. California (No. 1 U. S. tourist-camp State with 1,440 camps) did almost $5,000,000 worth of business. Still small beside the $900,000,000 hotel industry, tourist camps have multiplied since 1935, have spread along all the nation's highways from West to East...