Word: hooverness
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...Presidential party rolled into the yards at Boulder City, Nev. at cock crow. After breakfast all hands turned out for an inspection of huge Boulder Dam, which Herbert Hoover had started but which Franklin Roosevelt had helped along with a $38,000,000 PWA grant and was now about to dedicate...
...crowd were Governors Lehman of New York, Hoffman of New Jersey, Earle of Pennsylvania, Cross of Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats...
...tipped off Federal agents. Faced with deportation to Rumania, she marched into a Chicago court, changed her story, insisted she betrayed Dillinger. In return, said Tipstress Sage Melvin Purvis, then chief Chicago investigator of the Department of Justic promised to sidetrack deportation proceedings against her. While Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Division of Invest gation denied any such deal, the Chicago judge granted a temporary writ to prevent her deportation...
...Botanical Survey of Nebraska 1892-1903; Commissioner of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Nebraska 1901-03; Nebraska commissioner on uniform state laws 1904-07; secretary of the Nebraska state bar association 1901-07; president of the Association of American Law Schools 1910; and a member of President Hoover's National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement...
Still almost as unpopular as Herbert Hoover, Dominion Premier Richard Bedford Bennett submitted last week to the ultimate indignity in Canada's election campaign (TIME, Aug. 19). His Conservative campaign managers convinced him that the huge posters everywhere reading VOTE BENNETT! are such a liability to the Party that they were ordered changed to VOTE CONSERVATIVE...