Word: hooverness
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...CALL MYSELF INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN. SUPPORTED HOOVER. JERSEY EDUCATOR COUSIN OF MINE...
...campaign for reelection. In finest fettle the President clearly demonstrated that after nearly three years in the White House he was still the master stumpster of 1932 who could sway a crowd or a country with his vibrant voice, his buoyant words. He denounced Republican prosperity; he mocked Herbert Hoover (without naming him); he had at his old enemies, the bankers, rich clubmen, budget balancers and the Cassandras of national insolvency; he skipped his failures, harped on his successes; he made hopeful headlines about declining expenditures hereafter. And above all he seemed to have a thoroughly good time. Excerpts from...
...that the Phillips children could attend school in the U. S. In Canada Mr. & Mrs. Phillips never found a house large enough to suit them. After two years, therefore, Mr. Phillips, aged 51, resigned and retired once more to Beverly, Mass. There he headed the Massachusetts drive of Herbert Hoover's private Committee on Unemployment until in 1933 Franklin Roosevelt, one of his old Wartime friends, called him back to be Undersecretary of State. Such is William Phillips' career, a career which never put him in a tight place, diplomatic or otherwise. But capable is the diplomat whose...
...leaders of the Republican party have long wondered just what to do with the great engineer. Were not the presidency of Stanford University ably filled by Dr. Wilbur, it might have been a distinguished and honorable office for a political figure of Mr. Hoover's proportions. With no important mining schemes afoot, and with the old flair for executive positions definitely taking second place in favor of politics, it has been rather hard to crowd Mr. Hoover out of the picture. In fact, so far no one has had the temerity or ability to do so. Thick skins cannot...
...course as will the machinations of his enemies. Constant and unremitting statements to the press, day in and day out, begin to pall on any public. His words are being read less and less, his opinions create little excitement as compared to those of last year. In fact Mr. Hoover is slipping from the strong position he has held in Republican ranks throughout the country...