Word: hooverness
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...little too panicky and self-righteous in his protests over the use of soldier boys in the torchlight rally preceding the President's speech. But his objections to the warmed-over panacea are sound. Liberty Leaguer Shouse wins the same commendation by essentially the same stand. And Herbert Hoover continues to refurbish his badge of integrity, on the approved plan of denouncing Roosevelt. There is no need to be duped by the five-point system he would substitute for the President's latest nonsense. A glance at the propositions indicates their pure and simple anti-Rooseveltism. So far there...
...enemy of Hoover for years and since last autumn an ardent booster for Governor Landon, Mr. Hearst was interested in how much sympathy there was for Landon in this uninstructed delegation. George Gilray Young, general manager of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, quietly mailed a questionnaire, "Who is your favorite choice for Presidential candidate?" to the 44 members of the uninstructed slate and the 21 members of the steering committee. Mistaking the questionnaire for a general straw vote, all but one of the 65 replied. The score: Hoover, 47; Landon...
...consent of a candidate is not necessary in order to run a slate of delegates for him, Mr. Hearst took silence for consent, got up a slate for Landon. Three days before the Hearst slate was filed, Governor Merriam, unable to get himself a place of prominence on Mr. Hoover's uninstructed delegation, startled California by announcing himself for Landon. Thus the Merriams and the Hearsts converged from opposite directions, marched on as an army of Landons...
...spare two weeks to stump California was the reason he gave for not filing. Perhaps a shortage of campaign money helped him make up his mind, and he may have listened to advisers who told him that if he entered in California he might only split the anti-Hoover vote and run last in a field of three. With Borah out, that left California Republicans a choice next month of marching with the Hoovers or in the Landon-Hearst-Merriam brigade...
First proposed by Leland Stanford in 1867, possibility of a bridge from San Francisco to Oakland was pooh-poohed for two generations. In 1929 President Hoover, whose Palo Alto home is in the Bay neighborhood, and California's Governor Clement Calhoun Young formed a bridge commission. The commission decided the bridge was physically possible. Reconstruction Finance Corp. made it financially so with a loan of $61,400,000. In July 1933, work began...