Word: hooverness
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Though he voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928 because he believed that a fellow engineer was needed in the White House, Engineer Lasser supported Socialist Norman Thomas in 1932, will support him again this year. Says this onetime inter-planetarian: "I have decided that it is necessary to remake the Earth before delving into life on the Moon...
Mark Requa, onetime California Republican National Committeeman, remarked in Salt Lake City that his friend Herbert Hoover is in the market for "a good mine...
...nose for news. None of the northwest metropolitan newspapers that came to my attention gave this convention and celebration any notice whatever, either before, during or after the gathering. Practically all of the northwest newspapers are reactionary and, like Lot's wife, are looking backward. The Hoover era to them means happy days never to be forgotten and they sigh for their return...
...Governor Landon well in the lead over President Roosevelt. Never adept at bringing the name of God resoundingly into his speeches, Episcopalian Roosevelt has all but given up mentioning his Creator. In his acceptance speech last week Methodist Landon showed himself in the evangelical tradition of Republicans Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, all expert at invoking God from the rostrum. Began Nominee Landon: "In accepting this leadership I pray for Divine guidance to make me worthy. . . ." Concluded he: "God grant us, one and all, the strength and the wisdom to do our part...
...carry-over of 7,000,000 bales, last of the U. S. Depression surpluses. About half of this carry-over is controlled by the Government. But the Government did get out of the futures market last week for the first time since 1929, when Herbert Hoover's Farm Board first plunged headlong into the private cotton business. Reports were that the Cotton Pool cleared its books by selling a 25,000-bale futures contract to Speculator Jesse Livermore who is currently making one of his perennial comebacks...