Word: hooverness
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...hacks for whom the Press had no jobs. In 1929 Jouett Shouse hired Charles Michelson, Washington correspondent of the late New York World. Michelson raised his job to a new importance. He wrote good speeches for party bigwigs, spread masterful anti-Republican innuendoes, taught the country to hate Herbert Hoover...
...shot twice in the back of the head by unidentified gunmen; in a Chicago bowling alley. Died- Roy Dikeman Chapin, 55, one of Hudson Motor Car Co.'s founders, its chief executive since 1910, except for the year (1932-33) when he was Secretary of Commerce under President Hoover; of pneumonia; in Detroit. Died. Hiram Percy Maxim; 66, third of a famed family of inventors, best known for his Maxim silencer; of a throat ailment; in La Junta, Colo. Died. James Harvey Robinson, 72, noted historian and editor, of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Professor of European History...
...Kansas governor, who seems assured of getting the great block of uninstructed delegates at the convention, leads Senator William E. Borah by more than 100 votes, polling 279 to the Idahoan's 167. Herbert Hoover is the third choice of Harvard, with 98 votes...
...learn how to ski, in the amazingly extensive methods by which Germany's Olympic Committee, functioning under Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten, has prepared for the 1936 Olympic Games, and in the extraordinary career of one of Germany's most celebrated cinemactresses. If President Hoover had made Jean Harlow a major functionary in the Olympic Games of 1932, it would have been explicable only as a tribute to the superhuman shrewdness of that young woman's press-agents. Herr Hitler last year awarded to an actress of comparable popularity exclusive permission to make cinema recordings...
When Franklin Roosevelt became President, his cheery, mobile face was a delightful relief to White House cameramen weary of recording the frozen gloom which had become Herbert Hoover's face during his last two years in office. In his turn President Roosevelt, determined to set a Presidential high in frank, free, friendly treatment of the Press, had Secretary Early give the photographers a White House room to loaf in, proved most patient and generous in allowing himself to be snapped in all manner of unstudied, and sometimes thoroughly unheroic, attitudes. Though presumably annoyed, he made no public remonstrance even...