Word: hooverness
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...route from Kobe to Manila, steaming down the rock-strewn coast of Formosa to avoid the Japanese-controlled war zone in Taiwan Strait, the Dollar Line's 21,936-ton President Hoover grounded last week a few hundred yards off Japan's Hoishoto Island 500 miles north of Manila. There, with 1,000 passengers and crew safely ashore and on other ships, the $8,000,000 liner was slowly being battered to pieces...
...reads, let alone what he likes to read. Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, who took an active interest in current literature, found jobs for struggling poets (including Edwin Arlington Robinson), and scribbled notes to young magazine contributors whose pieces he liked, Franklin Roosevelt pays little attention to creative writing. Unlike Presidents Hoover and Wilson, he reads few detective stories...
...Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has begun an investigation of the case of F. William Burgess 1L after an appeal by his mother, it was learned yesterday...
...Burgess telephoned from Washington to Calvert Magruder, professor of Law and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law, in the morning after an interview with Hoover. The grounds for the investigation were that an inter-state crime had been committed in the disappearance of Burgess a month...
This would place the case within the scope of the Federal Bureau. Apparently Mrs. Burgess convinced Hoover that failure of Boston police to recover her son's body from the Charles River indicated this...