Word: hooverness
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While reporters and photographers clustered around Cinemactress Lupe Velez as she detrained in Manhattan last week with a shivering Chihuahua toy dog named Sophie, the 31st U. S. President created no stir at all leaving the same train. Citizen Herbert Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif, was bound for Belgium, for his first visit since he served as its unsalaried Wartime Relief Administrator. Meantime, Publisher Charles F. Scott returned from a visit to Mr. Hoover in Palo Alto to break in his Iola (Kans.) Register an authentic scoop about the only living ex-President. Publisher Scott's news was that...
...Herbert Hoover's California friends were surprised chiefly that Publisher Scott considered his revelation newsworthy, added that even today regular Hoover checks go to the families of more than 100 of his needy friends...
...schoolroom and library built by his father, an Alabama farmer, for the family's seven boys and three girls.* At 15 he was ready to go to the University of Alabama. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, interrupted his studies to work for Herbert Hoover's relief commission in Belgium, to go to India, take a fling in General Smuts's East African Army. He was twice mistakenly arrested as a spy. When he arrived in Alabama to enlist in the U. S. Army in 1917, barely 25 miles from his birthplace...
...Said he: "All we need now in this country to encompass and insure a complete and most devastating economic, social and political debacle is to reduce the prices of commodities and reduce the wage structure. . . . How many years did we try that policy during the Administration of former President Hoover?" At the word "Hoover"' the delegates sent up a mighty...
...eight years old, has always been sickly. Last year it sold more than 66,000,000 bushels of grain for its members, but the only time it made any kind of profit was in 1931, when it was broker for the Grain Stabilization Corp., working for Herbert Hoover's Farm Board. A profit was such a remarkable thing for Farmers National that a few years later it was investigated by the Senate, with no particular result...