Word: hooverness
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...part Indian, and while I might not agree with Browder or what he has to say I'll fight for his right to say it. And furthermore if TIME decides its covers on sex appeal alone-I'd pick Browder over Onion-head Hoover or Fudge-face Landon...
...Passed the $276,000,000 Second Deficiency Bill with two notable increases: an additional $3,075,000 to encourage Army re-enlistments by boosting the pay for men and non-commissioned officers who enlist more than once, and an additional $200,000 for J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation...
...night right after the fatal United Air-Lines crash at Cleveland, he dreamed that he got up from bed, walked to a White House window, and witnessed a terrible crash at the Washington Airport. Most of the conferees knew that only in a dream could anyone see the Washington-Hoover Airport from a White House window, but they knew, too, that Franklin Roosevelt's vision this time contained more probable stuff than most dreams are made of. From bushy-browed Kentucky Congressman Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, came at week's end assurance...
Died. Captain George W. Yardley, 58, master of the Dollar liner President Hoover; of complications from exposure and nervous strain in the six grim days of rescue and salvage after the President Hoover ran hard aground 18 miles off Formosa last December; in San Francisco...
...with Ernest Hemingway's Fifty Grand, which volatile Ray Long had rejected as too much for his more popular magazines, and Gertrude Stein's unorthodox Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. The Atlantic welcomed controversial essays from Woodrow Wilson. Alfred E. Smith, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur E. Morgan, Herbert Hoover. But never did it forget that it was essentially the literary trustee of its early Boston contributors like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier. Other Atlantic contributors who have made literary history include: Robert Browning, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Henry...