Word: hooverness
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...symposium were Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, lecturer on chemistry, and candidate for the Senate on the Socialist ticket; George Blake, secretary of the New England division of the Communist Party; David Stock, a Democratic New York lawyer and former special counsel to the Finance Committee of the Senate during Hoover's regime; and Henry Parkman '15, a member of the Massachusetts Senate who presented the Republican point of view...
...parade might have been seized on by radicals as occasion for a demonstration. When he left the Nicollet Hotel to go to the municipal auditorium, a small group of workmen was waiting for him. "Boo!" they shouted, "We're for Roosevelt! Boo! You're just another Hoover...
...unprecedented demand for seats that made it seem probable that all games in this year's World Series would be sellouts, the one that got most attention last week came from the White House. First Presidential junket to the World Series since Herbert Hoover was roundly booed at Philadelphia in 1931 was scheduled for the third game, the first in the Yankee Stadium...
...apparently aware of this attitude. Furthermore, while Franklin D. Roosevelt led all the rest on a list of men whose views on finance met with public approval, no banker showed up in the list until it had passed down through Ogden Mills, Senator Glass, Senator Borah, Alf Landon, Herbert Hoover, Henry Ford, William L. Lemke, Dr. Townsend, Father Coughlin, Norman Thomas...
...year-old Boston lawyer who married a Lowell. There are two other trustees and a five-man advisory board, heavily Harvard, predominantly Bostonian. Leading the board's list is Charles Francis Adams, great-great-great-grandson of the second President of the U. S.. Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Navy and reputedly the richest member of his ancient family. Another is Roger Amory. the philosophical president of Consolidated Investment Trust. He lists his hobbies as books, walks and lying in the sun. wrote for his 25th Harvard Class (1910) Book: "I believe in the consanguinity...