Word: hooverness
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...Senate since 1923 had gone seven similar messages from Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Only once had the Senate responded favorably. That was in 1926 when it tacked on a string of reservations which took Elder Statesman Elihu Root years to get accepted by the other powers. But after 13 years the World Court was probably the deadest political issue in the land. That deadness was precisely what gave World Court advocates hope of getting the U. S. in the Court this time. Senators Hiram Johnson of California, William Edgar Borah of Idaho and a handful of other bitter-enders...
...Chairman Jones listened in the House Press Gallery, he heard fellow Democrats on the floor denounce the RFC as a tool of the bankers, heard Republicans champion it as the salvation of the country. No G.O.Partisan forgot for a moment that it was President Herbert Hoover who had the RFC created in January 1932, and who, by proclamation, continued it for a second year. When Franklin Roosevelt became President, he scorned this Old Deal agency for many a month, allowed it to lapse almost out of sight. When he finally got around to coordinating it into his recovery program...
...special commission to investigate the matter. By the time the commission gets around to making a report, the public has usually cooled off, forgotten what the outcry was all about. Most notorious use of this prolonged investigational device was the Wickersham Report on Law Observance and Enforcement, which President Hoover chose to ignore (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Last winter President Roosevelt found himself in his first hot water following precipitate cancellation of the country's airmail contracts. Adopting the familiar strategy, he telephoned that good Democrat, roly-poly Publisher Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution, asked him to chairman...
...garden club president instructs fellow-members on the psychological use of flowers in table decoration. One use is "sublimation"-"an Ophelia rose grafted onto President Herbert Hoover...
Tribune and onetime director of Herbert Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. A Dartmouth graduate, Son Russell won the Prix de Rome as a muralist about 20 years ago. His later rebellion against the stiffness of academic tradition is still a driving force behind his constant technical experiments. In the Cairo American Express office seven years ago he met the former Women's Page Editor of the New York Sun, eloped with her within two weeks to Munich. He has spent six months in Bali, lives part of every year in Santa Fe. Of his painted abstractions last week...