Word: hooverness
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...field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats and canoes as the waters seeped up, flowed over Washington-Hoover and Bolling flying fields, swept away a few waterfront cottages, lapped the trunks of the famed Japanese cherry trees along the Potomac tidal basin...
Senator Borah became a candidate because he could not detect a reflection of his liberal dawn on the faces of such men as Herbert Hoover, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman Landon or Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News as they turned toward the Republican convention in Cleveland on June...
...Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio's 52 convention delegates. Not more than ten are conceded to him by the opposition. Last week before the Senator arrived in town the Youngstown Vindicator took a straw vote. Result: Landon, 542; Borah, 322; Hoover, 175; [Roosevelt...
Borah v. All. Hoover, Landon, Knox take as their issue the New Deal. Their rival takes as his issue Borah-against-the-field. By last week he was entered in Illinois, Nebraska (April 14), Pennsylvania (April 28), Ohio. Delegates were running for him locally in New York and Wisconsin. He was expected to enter in Maryland (May 4), California (May 5), Oregon...
...tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale Rider is disappearing into the sunset. Since the whole is painted with the stodgy technique of a bank president's portrait, the effect is as surprising as would be the sight of Herbert Hoover blowing a tenor saxophone...