Word: hooverness
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...TIME and Photographer Peter Stackpole an orchid for No. 1 shot of the year [TIME, April 8]. Such journalistic enterprise encourages TIME-readers to expect the impossible-a picture of Citizen Herbert Hoover snoozing during one of his own speeches...
...grey-haired, dinner-jacketed gentlemen chatting amiably in the Colonel's Reception Room of Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. One smiled, shook his head. The other grinned, took a glass, raised it in his companion's direction, cried, "To your health!" Few minutes later Herbert Clark Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith marched out to a banquet table, sat down to continue their chat over the water tumblers. After dinner the Presidential rivals of 1928 mounted the same platform for the first time in their lives, united in urging contributions to the Salvation Army...
...guarantee in his pocket. Not from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (of which he is a director) did he get his loan. He went, instead, to see President Thomas A. Buckner of New York Life. New York Life's Board, on which sit such G. O. Partisans as Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and Charles D. Hilles, considered Joe Day's mortgage with a U. S. guarantee, decided it was a good way to set 5,500,000 idle dollars earning their keep...
Meantime one of Hupp's founders and a former chairman, J. (for John) Walter Drake, marched into court as a large stockholder, demanding that Chairman Andrews be unceremoniously ousted by judicial order. Mr. Drake, who served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce when Herbert Hoover headed that Department, also obtained a temporary injunction restraining the Hupp directors from carrying out the same contracts & options that bothered the Stock Exchange. His charges were that the contracts & options were drawn largely for Archie Moulton Andrews' personal benefit...
...with Governor Frank Finley Merriam, ex-officio chairman of the Board of Regents. Be hind, with her speech in a Department of Labor "penalty" envelope, trudged Secretary Perkins, escorted by California's best-loved professor, Vice President and Provost Monroe Emanuel Deutsch. Behind them, Citizen Hoover and General David Prescott Barrows, the university's onetime president who led the National Guard to break up the General Strike when Miss Perkins dallied. Mr. Hoover slipped into his gown just before the procession puffed through a fringe of eucalyptus trees. Alumni fixed cushions on the Theater's stone tiers...