Word: hooverness
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...that President Roosevelt just dedicated the great Colorado River dam, let TIME relieve its perplexed California readers who are confused by the Los Angeles Times's continual harping on "Hoover Dam.'' Has the Times any justification for its stand...
...columns of type and pictures reporting President Roosevelt's dedication of the dam. the die-hard Los Angeles Times, whose publisher Harry Chandler is a staunch friend of Citizen Hoover, stubbornly called it Hoover Dam except when directly quoting the President and Secretary Ickes. The project has never been named by law. Construction was authorized by "The Boulder Canyon Project Act." but the actual site was changed from Boulder Canyon to Black Canyon 20 miles distant. Customary procedure is to name a project after the act authorizing it, unless Congress decrees otherwise. Two Congressional bills introduced...
Fortnight ago Coach Herbert Clark Hoover officially sent the Republican team out to win the national elections of 1936 (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week Republicans were snapping the ball around, barking signals, racing up & down the field in great style. The fact that their Democratic opponents were still loafing in the locker room in no way diminished the scope or ardor of the GOP's attack...
Secretary of Commerce: Herbert Hoover or Oilman Frank Phillips...
Month ago the Depression-made hair-shirt of popular disgust formerly worn in North America by Herbert Hoover was transferred to Canada's rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, an able and aggressive businessman who neither drinks nor smokes but has been seen by intimates to extract furtively from the bottom drawer of his desk a chocolate cream. In desperation good Mr. Bennett attempted briefly to ape President Roosevelt's New Deal (TIME. Jan. 14) but this was dead in Canada last week and all but forgotten. From the first, Canada's alert voters sensed...