Word: hooverness
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...White House. Modeled after Upton Sinclair's I, Governor of California, but wittier, the book presents an imaginative narrative beginning with Huey Long's election to the Presidency, concludes with his setting up his Cabinet, among whom were: Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt; Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover; Secretary of State, William F. Borah; Secretary of War, Smedley D. Butler; Secretary of the Treasury, James Couzens; Attorney General, Frank Murphy...
...obligation by the Government to GEORGIA'S GEORGE He was absolutely certain. buy cotton that no one else wants at the price. Of the three cotton loans made by the Government, two have been disastrous. The first, at 16? a Ib., made by Herbert Hoover's Federal Farm Board in the autumn of 1929, resulted in the Government's acquiring several millions of bales of cotton at a price at which cotton has never sold since.- The second, at io/ a Ib., made by the New Deal in 1933, was a success because the price climbed...
...President Hoover had shipped the Bonus Army of 1932 off to pleasant camps to play, putter and carouse at Government expense, the nation's Press would almost certainly have been more indignant than it was at his action in driving the luckless veterans out of Washington with tear gas and bayonets. If the conscientious New York Times had not last fortnight dispatched a man to investigate and report, the quiet but costly fashion in which President Roosevelt dissipated the threat of another Bonus Army would probably have escaped ail public notice...
...Constitution of the U. S. is a powerful enough document to survive the attacks of President Roosevelt and the defense of ex-President Hoover...
Afraid that he might lose a Canadian general election by seeming too much like President Hoover, Canada's stuffy, rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett long ago announced a "New Deal" (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week his enemies set out to defeat him for being too much like President Roosevelt. Flaying the New Deal shibboleth of Reform-before-Recovery, the Premier's bitter rival, onetime Canadian Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King launched his Liberal Party's electioneering campaign with a radio speech in which he keynoted "Recovery Ahead of Reform...