Word: hooverness
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...Hoover has helped put the Nation's Capital on the front page, but how about Robert V. Fleming, a sand lot boy of the District that reached the top in the banking world, president of Washington's largest bank, also president of the American Bankers Association...
Arriving in Little Rock at 5:30 p. m., the President was motored directly to its unfinished Centennial Stadium, found it pack-jammed with 25,000 people. Facing microphones which carried his voice over the same nationwide hookups which were to broadcast the words of Herbert Hoover at Cleveland an hour later, Franklin Roosevelt delivered the first of a series of set speeches using the events of long-dead history as parables on current politics...
Third Gun. Herbert Hoover, still the Party's titular leader and now, after his public renunciation of Presidential ambitions (TIME, May 25), more popular than at any time since 1928, was welcomed at the Cleveland station by a cheering mob. He was kept in a political goldfish bowl until the hour of his speech. To prevent jealousy, forestall rumors of intrigue, no candidate or candidate's henchman was allowed to see him alone. In his rooms at the Hotel Cleveland he stood all day publicly beaming, greeting and pumping hands. Senator Vandenberg saw the ex-President...
...When Mr. Hoover stood on the Convention platform to make his farewell address, the demonstration was genuine and joyous. He beamed and waved. After 15 minutes of yelling, shrieking, hooting, he was allowed to begin. With left hand in pocket and chubby right fist bouncing on the rostrum in time with his denunciation, he culminated his six-month attack on the New Deal with a masterly peroration. Excerpts...
...paired with Oh! Susanna as a major overtone of 1936 only by accident. The rhythm of Senator Steiwer's keynote phrase, "Three long years!" automatically evoked the old nursery jingle. Prompt to answer the Republican parody were Democratic versions recalling the twelve long years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. But Oh! Susanna was not revived by accident. Governor Landon's efficient handlers had searched carefully for a tune to set him to, a tune that could surely be plugged into another Banana Song. After discarding a "We Want Landon" chant and the somewhat tedious Kansas University song...