Word: hooverness
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...ACTION. ONE IT WOULD. . . ." An astounded UP editor who had watched this unsolicited opinion from a person unknown unravel before his eyes, sprang into action. To Tucson he flashed this query: WHO IS SENDING COLLECT ENDLESS OPINION ON GOLD? Back came the answer: SENDER OF COLLECT MESSAGE IS HERBERT HOOVER...
...words of collect message had come through on the first machine. Soon 400 words had been clicked out. The editor's brow clouded: Was this an expensive practical joke? He sat down again and asked: TUCSON, ARIZ. ARE YOU SURE COLLECT MESSAGE IS SENT BY EX-PRESIDENT HOOVER? Click, Click, Click. The machine responded: SENT BY HOOVER IN PERSON. The editor shrugged. About that time, at the end of 600 words, the original message ended. Cost to the United Press...
Thus for the first time since he left the White House did Herbert Hoover become politically vocal on a specific national question. Heretofore he had written magazine articles and delivered speeches but his ideas were always muffled in a fog of meaningless political platitudes. Now as he was traveling home to California from his first New York Life Insurance directors' meeting, the Supreme Court rendered its decision on the gold cases (TIME, Feb. 25). For two days newshawks had trailed him, begging in vain for some comment. Sternly he put them aside with: "I am no longer in public...
...gist of Mr. Hoover's remarks: he favored going back on a gold basis, paying 59? in gold to any holder of a devalued dollar. He argued that such action would reduce unemployment, give business a rush of confidence, stop the spread of "inflation poison" in the national blood...
Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 24--Sen. Huey P. Long, D. La., in a statement tonight said that "Roosevelt stands in the Hoover shoes but even worse bogged down than that great engineer...