Word: hooverness
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...with the price of cotton threatened by a crop that is huge by 1935 standards of consumption, it was last week becoming politically more & more difficult for him to refuse to make another price-pegging loan offer. In effect, he was in that unfortunate position in which Herbert Hoover's Farm Board found itself when that luckless agency tried valiantly but vainly to peg the price of wheat...
Since that time much water has gone under the bridge and Mr. Edge has gone over the dam into history as Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Last April he and his pretty young wife returned from a world cruise in time for the asparagus season. Last week, the season of his favorite vegetable having closed, he sailed to enjoy the grouse season in Scotland. Standing on the deck of the Normandie, he swelled his chest, flapped his elbows and spoke once more of the firing line: "I want a month's rest so that I can come...
Robert H. Lucas, oldtime G. O. P. wheelhorse whom Herbert Hoover had for executive director at Republican National Headquarters, brushed aside the cobwebs of obscurity and dashed off an 800-word letter to 3,000 Republican county chairmen, 450 city leaders and 800 "Young Republicans," polling them on their preferences for Republican nominee in 1936, exhorting them: "All this scared-rabbit talk about 'You can't beat a man with four billion dollars' is just the kind of propaganda weak-kneed Republican leaders have been swallowing for five years A lot of hooey...
...Browder claimed for U. S. Communists a rising influence even in the party of Herbert Hoover, not to mention that of President Roosevelt. No Moscow comrade snickered when he said: "The American Communist Party is reaching not only the proletarians but also the intelligentsia, farmers and professional classes and is penetrating even the framework of the two old parties." All of this, according to No. 1 U. S. Red Browder, has been accomplished by Communists claimed to total 30,000 in the U. S. and to be only 60% foreign-born today, whereas...
...used to be 36 elephants but once, while Mr. Charbneau was showing them to Samaeka Pasha, president of the Coptic Museum of Cairo, all of them fell on the soft carpet. Though Samaeka Pasha, his wife and Collector Charbneau searched diligently, even using Mr. Charbneau's 2-in. Hoover vacuum cleaner, the three missing elephants were never recovered...