Word: hooverness
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...audience persists in booing Roosevelt and applauding Hoover...
Most modern U. S. Presidents sooner or later fall into the habit of comparing themselves, directly or obliquely, with one of their greater predecessors in office. In 1931 Herbert Hoover went to Valley Forge to deliver a George Washington address. When he got through, the Press had the distinct impression that the 31st President was thinking of himself and his troubles in terms of the First President, that the noble general who shivered at the Valley Forge of the Revolution and the great engineer who was then shivering at the Valley Forge of the Depression, were really...
Applying for a pistol permit, Lawyer Charles Clyde Pettijohn, general counsel of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, town councilman of Harrison, N. Y., gave as character references Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Will Hays, J. Edgar Hoover and George William Cardinal Mundelein, got the permit...
There was no such thing as a plant patent in the U. S. when Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent...
...Foreign Wars have setting the difference about the method of dividing the spoils. The new promising near being exerted as Congress is more concerted, more powerful than ever before. It is no longer a question of Congress gracefully going through the motions and then pointing to a Roosevelt or Hoover veto and declaring its impotency. It is perhaps reasonable to count upon another Roosevelt veto but the question is whether one out of three of our Senators is sane, staunch, . . . and patriotic...