Word: hooverness
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...Senate investigators reported that A. G. & E.'s admitted expenditures of $700,000 to defeat the Public Utility Bill were $92,000 short of the mark. Among those reported to have had A. G. & E. retainers: the law firms of Patrick J. Hurley, Herbert Hoover's Secretary of War, and of Basil O'Connor, onetime partner of Franklin D. Roosevelt and brother of House Rules Chairman John J. O'Connor, each...
...public favor make it easier to get money out of Congress. But the public's enthusiasm for G-Men has been largely responsible for alienating the co-operation of local police, without which the Bureau simply cannot function. It is true that every agent and accountant from Director Hoover down must be always prepared to "put on his old clothes" (i.e., go on a raid). But the facts are that since 1908 only eight Bureau of Investigation operatives have lost their lives in line of duty (the last three at the hands of maniacal "Baby Face" Nelson last year...
...enemies, Director Hoover has plenty. They are not only men with guns in their hands and murder in their hearts. They are political lawyers who resent the Bureau's activities against their clients, frightened liberals who see in the Bureau the material for a U. S. Cheka, and others, not all of them outside the Department of Justice, who are jealous of Director Hoover's success and political immunity. These call him everything from a vain peacock to a vulgar gum-shoer. And to this sort of charge, Director Hoover has one reply...
...Lawrence can boast that they are the Dominion's most densely populated province. Last week their ballots drove the final provincial nail into the political coffin of Canada's rich & prosperous Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is now somewhat less of a national hero than Herbert Hoover...
...receive over 1,500 words are Washington, Lincoln, Bismarck, Mary Queen of Scots. To Christ's 1,200 words. St. Paul gets 1,275; to Stalin's 400, Trotsky gets 650. Should Franklin Roosevelt be nettled to learn that his 800 words fall short of Herbert Hoover's 1,100, he can reflect that he plays the leading role in 850 words on NRA. Other counts: Theodore Roosevelt, 1,400; Wilson, 1,350; Lenin. 1,050; Mussolini, 850; Hitler, 750; Einstein, 400; Chaplin, 180; Tunney...