Word: hooverness
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...morning last week Herbert Hoover, returning to California after a tour of the East, arrived in Chicago. Knowing the best place to find him, newshawks marched into the office of Capitalist Arch Wilkinson Shaw, great & good Hoover friend. No trace of Mr. Hoover was to be seen but much in evidence was Mr. Hoover's traveling companion, Ben S. Allen, onetime Associated Pressman and Wartime assistant to Hoover in Belgium. Ben Allen, whose most notable job was press-agenting the Hoover Food Administration, passed out a typewritten Hoover statement...
Students are not above reproach as far as hissing is concerned, however. "For instance," says Sumner, "undergraduates hiss newsreel shots of Roosevelt, the townies return the compliment when Hoover's visage flashes on the screen." From this reaction he deduces that the student body is fundamentally Republican...
Secretary Hull could chuckle to himself that a good many of his concessions did no more than restore the pre-Hoover tariff, that many (notably lumber, cattle and potatoes) had been so limited by quotas to a tiny fraction of U. S. consumption, that they would have little if any unsettling influences. Moreover the articles which the U. S. agreed to keep on the free list included newsprint (on which the U. S. Press would never let a tariff be imposed) and a number of things of which the U. S. has far from enough (e. g. asbestos, cobalt, lobsters...
...Hoover began with his restrictive Chamber of Commerce Codes; Roosevelt continued with his National Recovery Administration. Hoover began with his restrictive high tariffs; Roosevelt continued with his absurd Agricultural Administration. Both Presidents, if they had deliberately set out to intensify the depression, to impoverish the country, to keep people out of work, and to give free rein to all the formerly illegal, antisocial, restrictive, monopolistic practices, could not have designed more effective programs to secure this effect...
Education has recognized these problems for a number of years but it has adopted a policy of laissez-faire which puts even Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hoover to shame. We firmly believe that the time has come for Mr. Conant to throw down the gauntlet and show education what a real educator...