Word: hooverness
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...reprisals and serious armed Fascist threats at home, 1931's Man of the Year stood almost an even chance of repeating in 1935. . . . If in 1932 the Republicans and Democrats of the U. S., faced with an A. F. of L. uprising, hid combined to re-elect Herbert Hoover to pull them out of the Depression, and if then some member of his cabinet such as a Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt had rapidly
...spring of 1933, the professors of the Brain Trust might have noticed one of their former colleagues proceeding in the opposite direction. The tall, bald, rangy gentleman with the glum expression was William Marion Jardine, who had deserted his books to be Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt. After a brief stay in the Kansas State Treasurer's office, Republican Jardine was offered and accepted the presidency of the Municipal University of Wichita. (Enrollment...
Died, Walter Liggett, writer (Bawdy Boston, The Rise of Herbert Hoover), muckraking editor of the Midwest American, loud & bitter foe of Minnesota's Governor Floyd B. Olson; of bullet wounds inflicted by gunmen as he stepped out of his car; in Minneapolis. Last month he was acquitted of a charge of sodomy against an 18-year-old girl after he had branded the charge a frameup by Olson forces. After the shooting police arrested a night club proprietor and a onetime liquor runner, charged them with the murder...
...Madras to Singapore to Batavia to Singapore to Hongkong to Shanghai to Kobe to Osaka to Honolulu to San Francisco between Dec. 6 and March 5. In 1931 President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia conferred upon him the Order of the White Lion. He detests high tariffs, and while Herbert Hoover was President Mr. Mooney was urging the building up of Russian-U. S. trade. Last year he received...
...Hoover an influence...