Word: hooverness
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...Thomas E. Dewey, with all powers necessary to clean up the town. Mr. Dewey's record for rooting out the gangsters at the top, and for getting his suspect convicted, has been nothing short of phenomenal, far better, indeed, than the, more highly publicized Federal Bureau of G-Man Hoover...
Myron's first backsliding occurred when he was transferred (following the first big shakeup, under Hoover, of the Indian Service bureaucracy) to a school attended by Apaches. When one day he saw an unrepentant backslider from the start getting the worst of it in a fight with Apache students. Myron jumped in, was both delighted and distressed to discover he liked righting. That summer he let his hair grow, found riding better fun than driving a car, gambling songs prettier than many a mission hymn, backslid in his thoughts about pretty 12-year-old Buckskin's daughter, began...
...camp of the Phillistines we find the two defeated war horses Hoover and Landon, unreconciled even in their hour of travail. Neither of these former champions have ever seemed peculiarly ingrained in the affections of the American people but Senator Vandenburg is a man of different caliber and definitely the most quietly impressive figure in the "grand old party." That he will wear upon his sage and untroubled brow the republican laurel in the next election, is a fairly universal opinion...
...Atlantic Monthly (circ. 105,250) last month, Herbert Hoover recommended a plan for getting his party out of the doldrums: a mid-term Republican National Convention to be held during the next year. Last week, Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton announced that his Republican National Committee would meet in Chicago next month to consider seriously what good such a convention would do, decide whether to hold...
...dinner, sponsored by 17 societies of hotel men and gourmets, was the New York Times's Editor John H. Finley. To the tune of the Wedding March, softly played by violins, Mr. & Mrs. Tschirky cut a 200-lb. wedding cake. They received felicitations from onetime President Herbert Clark Hoover, the present Cabinet, bigwigs in general. Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent "warm greetings and congratulations to my good friend Oscar and his good wife...