Word: hooverness
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...cordial dislike of each other is something of a record, dating as it does from pre-New Deal days, when Franklin Roosevelt was Governor of New York State, Mr. Carlisle's bailiwick. But now, with a Grade A business recession on his hands, the President, like Mr. Hoover in 1929-30, is anxious to persuade the great utilities industry to cut loose with a big construction program which would stimulate heavy industry (TIME...
...District of Columbia court spends much of its time on Government tax litigation brought before it by the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals, and is a place where the New Deal can well use a sincere friend. For his part Fred Vinson, who remembers his defeat by the Hoover landslide in 1928 after three terms in the House, appreciated as fully as any seasoned campaigner the security of a $12,500 lifetime...
...nominate for Man of the Year, the world's most distinguished citizen: Herbert Hoover...
Died. Philip Alexius Laslo de Lombos, 68, academic Hungarian painter who had done portraits of Pope Leo XIII, former Kaiser Wilhelm, Presidents Harding & Hoover, King Edward VII, Premier Mussolini; of heart disease; in London. During the War when he, a British citizen, sent money to a friend in Hungary, he was convicted of "trading with the enemy," clapped into jail...
After the game, Hoover was a guest at a tea given by Professor Roger B. Merriman at Eliot House, and then went to the dinner in honor of President Seymour of Yale at the Conant residence...