Word: hooverness
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...nominee, called the nation's attention to a few facts about Kansas. Most fun was had by Joe McDonald of Kansas City, blond, high-spirited Democratic leader of the Senate who lately journeyed to Washington to be coached for this occasion by shrewd Democratic Press agent Charles ("Smear Hoover") Michelson. Roaring with laughter and shouting across the chamber as he made his points, Senator McDonald gleefully recalled Nominee Landon's message to the Republican Convention proposing extension of Federal civil service...
...stayed long enough to achieve a notable reputation for tact and efficiency, the eleventh and last Governor General of the Philippines may have concluded that the post might prove for him the same kind of stepping stone which it was for the eighth. Henry Lewis Stimson, who became Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State; or for the first, William Howard Taft, who went home to be Secretary of War, later President...
Meanwhile the Democratic National Committee was bragging: "The entire country is applauding the swift, energetic and efficient manner in which the Roosevelt Administration is moving to the relief of drought victims in the Great Plains states. . . . Think what a calamity it would be if the Hoover doctrine were in force!" In five days WPA placed 16,500 farmers on relief projects, made ready to handle another 58,500. The Resettlement Administration declared a one-year moratorium on some 30,000 rural rehabilitation loans, prepared to pour out $18,000,000 for crop loans and feed. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace...
...quietly through van Zeeland's reading of Il Duce's note. He also sat through a long speech by flowery Delegate José María Cantilo of Argentina, the country which had demanded that the Assembly meet on the Ethiopian Question. Harking back to President Hoover's meticulous
Married. Mrs. Samuel H. Long, Herbert Hoover's White House housekeeper; and Isaac Walker of Baltimore, Md.; in Indianapolis...