Word: hooverness
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...choosing as their candidate for Senator a member of "the legal staff of this Administration"-Lawyer John Lord O'Brian of Buffalo (see p. 12}. The shoe was really on the other foot: Lawyer O'Brian also served the U.S. ably under Republicans Taft and Hoover before the New Deal complimented* him by making him a member of its legal staff...
America's only living ex-President, Mr. Hoover, delivered a very moral attack on the Roosevelt administration the other night in Kansas City. From the number of times he used the word "moral", at a rough guess forty times, it is clear that morals are being safeguarded by Mr. Hoover and the Republican party while the Democrats are allowing them to rust. But paragraphs such as the following tend to make one doubt his close application to the study of morals as a science and suspect that there may be willy-nilly a touch of politics in his utterance...
...much to ask even of a politician (which is probably not Mr. Hoover's idea of himself) that he define his terms better than is shown in "It is alone the spirit of morals that can reconcile order and freedom," and "There is a moral purpose in the universe." In the substance of his speech he merely showed the intellectual and practical impoverishment of the Republican national leadership by bringing forward the usual vague charges of corruption of the party out of power, and advocated an amateur administration of relief. The Republicans will have to find something more than this...
Hugh Gordon Voorhies, II, San Gabriel, California--Herbert Hoover High School, San Diego, California...
...Interior) gave the go-ahead signal to Pacific Constructors, Inc., a 12-company syndicate which successfully bid $35,939,450 for the erection of Shasta Dam. Final moneys for this purpose were voted by the last Congress. The project, which will do for Northern California what Herbert Hoover's Boulder Dam does for Southern California, is now entirely financed by the Federal Government, which hopes to get the money back from water sales in 40 years...