Word: hooverness
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...paid off the two prospectors within a year and up to last week had taken $80,000 in gold out of the earth. Last week the dazzling story of the Jumbo strike spread across the country on the authority of no less a mining expert than Herbert Hoover...
...country's only living ex-President and a San Francisco oilman named R. W. Hanna visited Jumbo last fortnight, "purely out of geological curiosity." Much impressed, Mr. Hoover advised Austin to hold on to Jumbo. When Austin offered to pay for this advice, Mr. Hoover told him: "That kind of advice is free." Oilman Hanna, however, bought five claims in the Slumbering Hills around Jumbo...
Tradition is that in every national election any party that has a living ex-President drafts him to make a series of speeches lending his prestige to its nominee. In 1936 the only living ex-President is Herbert Hoover and he is an exception. Instead of having prestige with the majority of voters, he is widely regarded as a political liability. Nevertheless, when Republican Chairman John Hamilton reached San Francisco last week on an airplane stumping-tour of the West, Herbert Hoover was drafted to serve his party for the modest job of introducing him to a political rally...
Nowhere in his remarks did Mr. Hoover mention Presidential Nominee Landon or the matter of his election...
...points" of Social Justice, net of which is that cheap money is the key to a rich life for all. Orator Holt evoked boos for Representative John J. O'Connor (who last spring threatened to kick Father Coughlin from the Capitol to the White House), Herbert Hoover, the du Ponts, Carter Glass, WPA, the Federal Reserve System. He won cheers for Thomas Jefferson. Father Coughlin. Social Justice. Next Father Coughlin delivered a "schoolroom lecture" on economics, finance and the iniquity of the Federal Reserve System for creating false money "with a fountain pen and a piece of paper...