Word: hooverness
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...unfair and sarcastic article about Mr. Hoover in the Dec. 30 issue was uncalled for. I am not alone in being utterly tired of the continual ballyhoo for the New Deal and its President...
...opportunity for the Outs to bedevil the Ins. He may have remembered in June 1932, before adjournment, he himself was standing on the floor of the House broadcasting in the Congressional Record an attack on the keynoter of the Republican National Convention which met in Chicago to renominate Herbert Hoover. This year Republicans would like the same opportunity. Nearly three years ago, when the New Deal was new and unopposed, Representative Bankhead was already suffering attacks of acute indigestion in the cloakrooms. Now again, though the President, the Speaker and Senate leaders may sing sweetly of early adjournment, there...
Literary Digest. Greatest straw-vote taker, the Literary Digest, whose polls predicted with considerable accuracy Repeal and the defeat of Hoover, last week reported the tabulation of 987,000 ballots from 41 states. Its question: "Do you NOW approve the acts and policies of the Roosevelt New Deal to date?" Its answers...
...that other objections to the poll multiplied. Harvard Economics Professor W. L. Crum pointed out in the Wall Street Journal a statistical error. In 1932, 55% of Illinois voters balloted for Roosevelt. As a group this 55% was presumably more inclined to be "liberal" than that which voted for Hoover. Therefore in any fair sample of Illinois voters, about 55 out of 100 must be of the kind who voted for Roosevelt in 1932. But of those who cast Digest ballots less than 47% reported having voted for Roosevelt in 1932. By weighing the average so as to count...
...Hearst blames the New Deal for U. S. crime, but the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr. occurred during the Hoover Administration...