Word: hooverness
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...Herbert Hoover argued about such things as liberty. Practical GOPoliticians, running for their lives to the hills, threw him a scornful glance over their shoulders. In the lean days that followed, these harried GOPartisans came out of their fastnesses only to make hungry forays on the fat New Deal outposts. They had little time or inclination to bother with Prophet Hoover...
...featured is "Parole Fixer," in which Eddie Hoover's G-Men go gang-busting for the umpteenth time...
...News (which at the height of the Florida Boom led all U. S. newspapers in advertising lineage) headlined G-Man John Edgar Hoover, ineffectively sounding off against the local toleration of gamblers, gangsters, brothels; and Governor Fred Cone in Tallahassee, effectively commanding Miami politicos to close down the gaming...
...Sunday, U. S. Lutheran churches responded by asking their 4,000,000 members for a tidy war-relief fund, $500,000, most of which is to be given to the Finnish Church.* Lutheran leaders assured prospective donors that they were not in any way duplicating the job of the Hoover Finnish Relief Fund (collected to date...
...Lewis as an autocratic reactionary of Labor. Singin' in the Rain was a popular tune. The average price of a radio set was $135. Disney's first Silly Symphony was just out (Allen does not name it; it was The Skeleton Dance}. President Herbert Clark Hoover returned from the weekend at his camp on the Rapidan. City people descending in the evening to the little, barred window of their favorite speakeasy were aware of the appointment of the Wickersham Commission to study how to enforce the unenforceable...