Word: hooverness
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...Jesse Jones, self-made First Citizen of Texas, went to Washington in February 1932 to be a Democratic director of Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. Under pinchpenny Chairman Atlee Pomerene, RFC dwindled in power and prestige until by March 1933 it had hit bottom. Two months later Jesse Jones took over as chairman and RFC's great days began. He conducted himself and his huge money-lending business so well, with such level-headed liberalism, that it became easily the public's favorite New Deal agency, and he perhaps Washington's favorite administrator. Just...
Eastman has been a member of the I.C.C. since 1919, when President Wilson appointed him to that body. Two Republican presidents, Harding and Hoover, re-appointed him when his term expired. In June, 1935, he was appointed Federal Coordinator of Transportation by Roosevelt, a position which he held until recently...
...major reason for its ratification is the rights of children to health and a fair chance. But it is also important that we have orderly constitutional change instead of pressure on the independence of the Supreme Court." This statement was issued to the press at Palo Alto by Herbert Hoover, his first formal statement since last election...
...Iowa; of senility. Burns defeated Evan Lewis (the original "Strangler") for the heavyweight title in 1895, when choke holds were allowed, lost to Tom Jenkins three years later, trained Frank Gotch to throw Jenkins. Trainer and Chautauqua lecturer, he boasted: "Only one man out of Cedar County, Iowa (Herbert Hoover), ever made more money than I did and he got to be President of the United States...
...years of patient palaver in Afghanistan's moun tain capital of Kabul, in Geneva and in Berlin. Able diplomat in these negotiations was Charles Calmer Hart, oldtime Washington correspondent of the Portland Oregonian, U. S. Minister to Albania un der President Coolidge, Minister to Persia under President Hoover. Then the only trained newsman in the diplomatic service, subtle, cheerful Charlie Hart provided the State Department with some of its best official reading in his reports on such mat ters as the development started by Stand ard Oil of California in 1931 on Bahrein Island in the Persian Gulf...