Word: hooverness
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...Bill is one of those pleasant expressions U. S. politicians have used since the steam engine was invented, without ever giving thought to that A B C of government, that there can be no justice without law. and no law without a sanction. Either Republicans of the Knox and Hoover type do not know this, and in that event we deprecate their naivete, or they are insincere in holding out to Labor a palm that is greasy with the stuff from Wall Street that makes the G. O. P. machine go round...
Reader Nunnally Johnson refers to the Los Angeles Times's "singlehanded fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam" [TIME. Oct. 21]. The fight is not single-handed for the Chicago Daily News does the same thing. It may be a coincidence, but Frank Knox. the publisher, apparently has presidential aspirations and Mr. Hoover, according to TIME. is a mighty potent force in Republican ranks even today...
...BELIEVE NOBODY WANTS NEXT PRESIDENT HOOVER...
...Allan Hoover bought the West Branch, Iowa, birthplace of his father Herbert Hoover...
Thus spoke Herbert Hoover when he was Secretary of Commerce. Today Mr. Hoover may have other notions as to what constitutes prime peacetime waste but he is still an honorary president of the American Arbitration Association, whose sole purpose is elimination of needless litigation. Mr. Hoover's AAA maintains a quasi-judicial system throughout the and where business disputes may be settled quickly, cheaply, secretly...