Word: hooverness
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...national broadcast Senator Burton K. Wheeler cried: "Every labor leader, every farmer and every progressive-minded citizen in the United States would have been shocked and protested from the housetops if President Harding, President Coolidge or President Hoover had even intimated that they wanted to increase the Supreme Court so as to make it subservient to their wishes. The progressives would have said, and rightly so, that it was fundamentally unsound, morally wrong and an attempt to set up a dictatorship in this country...
...that America entered the Great War, he held the position of assistant in the Department of State. At the conclusion of the war, Herter, who was born in Paris, acted as Secretary for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris. Shortly after the war he worked with Herbert Hoover on the European Relief Council, of which he was executive Secretary. He continued to work with Hoover as he held the position of assistant in the Department of Commerce from...
During his coming two-week visit to Hollywood Jean Harlow announced she would be hostess to chief G-Man J, Edgar Hoover, who met her at the President's Birthday Ball in Washington, staged a machine-gun demonstration for her amusement...
...political questions was rudely branded either wholly Democratic or purely Republican. Any work of scholarship which dared to peek around a political corner was immediately seized, and the blight of partisanship was forever stamped upon its cover. Republican voters road Republican pamphlets, and convinced Democrats smiled disdainfully at Herbert Hoover's while fetching a dollar for Secretary Wallace's "latest". Into this potpourri of citizens, now that the party quarantine has been lifted, the Editors of the London "Economist" have dropped their appraisal of The New Deal, an appraisal which will both satisfy and dissatisfy Republicans and Democrats alike...
...General Parran in Washington and Social Hygienist Snow in Manhattan. But in a sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director of the American Social Hygiene Association, a consolidation of well-meaning organizations which then primarily wanted to eradicate prostitution. Soon practically...