Word: hooverness
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...While munitions makers undoubtedly profit from war, as do many other persons, they are no more primarily responsible for wars than was Peter the Hermit, John Brown, or the Austrian Archduke who had himself assassinated to start the World War. You and Senator Nye might as properly blame the Hoover Company and Fuller Brush Company for the Kansas dust storms, although the latter of the two concerns is responsible for The Fuller Brush Man, who is about as all pervading as the dust itself...
Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover both suffered severely from the disease of Presidents before they left the White House. Origin of the ailment is Presidential isolation from ordinary human contacts. It is aggravated by the fact that in order to get aids to carry out their policies, Presidents naturally surround themselves with advisers who admire them and sympathize with all their aims. Symptoms of the disease in the sufferer are 1) a growing impatience and resentment of criticism, 2) a feeling more or less openly expressed that he is being persecuted by men with unworthy motives, 3) a determination...
...President Hoover let Prohibition slip through his fingers. He was a traitor then and he is a Judas Iscariot now. . . . Why doesn't he do something now?" asked Dr. Clarence True Wilson, plaintive, goateed secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals...
...principal speaker of the banquet, at which Edward E. Yaggy, Jr, 2G.B., president of the Business School Association will preside, will be the Honorable Henry J. Allen, onetime governor of Kansas, United States Senator, and right-hand man of Herbert Hoover. Allen, has just returned from six months study of conditions in England and will contrast the success of recovery methods in the United States and Britain...
...years Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith has been a $9-a-week brokers' clerk in Manhattan, fight promoter in Great Britain, biggest bear since Jesse Livermore, greatest bull since William Crapo Durant. The commodity in which he is always bearish is hooey. Every time President Hoover and Dr. Julius Klein said things were going to get better in 1930, the profane, pale-eyed Irishman unloaded his stocks. ("Sell 'em," said he. "They're not worth anything.") The commodity in which Ben Smith is always bullish is gold. Only U. S. director of Mclntyre Porcupine gold...