Word: hooverness
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...many a mutual friend who was ready to play his antipathy to the Roosevelt Administration all the way across the board. Ironically, the list of men who endow the New Deal's Opposition was found to include many a bigwig who belonged to the group that Herbert Hoover still thinks ruined his Administration...
Senator McKellar of the Senate Appropriations Committee protested yesterday that J. Edgar Hoover's "G" men were running wild with Government money, and he advocated a $225,000 slash in the Department of Justice allotment for the coming year. Mr. Hoover appeared in person to defend these charges, and insisted that any cut in governmental appropriation would encourage a new crime wave, as well as seriously hamper the Department's work...
...unprecedented liberality with public money and unwieldy bureaucracies. The alphabet has been twisted beyond recognition and 'Brain Trusters' have played havoc with age old American institutions, but the one shining light of usefulness and of service to the public is the "G" men under the leadership of Mr. Hoover. The American public owes it to itself to see that nothing is allowed to interfere with the work of this department...
Today the underworld fears and respects the "G" men, but the time must come when criminals and hardened gangsters will shudder at the very mention of Mr. Hoover and his cohorts. To cut down on the funds for this department would be to encourage crime and send a new wave of criminality to prey upon the public...
Ever do the Republican politicians lash the flanks of the Democratic Donkey with the cry of "economy". It has caught and will spread like wild-fire through the summer mouths, fanned constantly by the bellows of such outstanding political Hamlets as Hoover, Landon, Knox and Borah; never forgetting the large and well paid machines behind these personalities. Economy will, in short, probably have more to do with the election of the next President than any other single issue. Whatever the result may be, the unloading of such unfinished and dead cargo as the Florida ship-canal and the Passamaquoddy project...