Word: hooverness
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...Governor Landon is much closer to the nomination than Herbart Hoover was at this same time in 1928. It's all over but calling the roll, in my opinion." Thus did a prominent Republican politician of Massachusetts sum, up the pre-convention situation, as Grand Old Partizans of New England prepare to entrain for the Cleveland Convention, which opens June...
...political expert, who asked that his name be not used, said that although originally he had favored Hoover as the nominee, he thought that now there was nothing that could stop the Kansas Chief Executive from sweeping the Convention on the first ballot when the roll is called on the third day of the gathering...
...respected the political autonomy of its Caribbean neighbors. Action by the State Department in the Chaco war and in the Machado fiasco was taken only after careful consultation with the leading powers of the southern hemisphere. The Rooseveltian repudiation of the Socony-United Fruit-Chase National policies of Hoover and Coolidge has won favor throughout Hispanic America. It has paved the way for the extremely lucrative reciprocal tariff agreements with Brazil and the Argentine. The latest expression of Latin approval of American policy came in the unanimity of agreement over the impending Pan-American Congress...
...chief talking point of conservatives in their attacks on the extreme measures of the New Deal has always been that the Washington government was trying to perform duties that really belonged to the states. Even Mr. Hoover did not dare come out against minimum-wage and maximum hour laws, but merely said that the Constitution reserved such powers to the states. Mr. Hoover may have been narrow-minded and behind the times, but he was not inhuman, and to many people his argument had a great deal of logic. In the face of this decision such a clear-cut alternative...
...delegates-at-large to the Republican Convention. In addition to him, the official slate of Landon delegates-at-large included Mrs. Edna B. Conklin; President Edward D. Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime Congressman Franklin W. Fort, who emerged from political retirement to offer himself as a substitute for Governor Hoffman on the Landon slate. Mr. Fort's sole issue: the Governor's handling...