Word: hooverness
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...Herbert Hoover had barely unpacked his trunks in the White House when Prohibition's most spectacular international incident arose to embarrass him. Off the coast of Louisiana U. S. Coast Guard cutters chased the rum-running Canadian schooner I'm Alone 200 miles out to sea, there shelled and sank her (TIME, April 1, 1929). One seaman, a French citizen, was killed. British and Canadian newspapers roared with pain. U. S. Wets bubbled over in frothy indignation. Terse memoranda flew between London, Ottawa and Washington. Strenuously the U. S. State Department sought to defend...
...constant thorn in the side of Congressional utility baiters, who very nearly succeeded in passing a bill to dam the Potomac River above Washington and sell public power to public servants. They even gained the support of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover...
...heavily tapestried, rococo boardroom of the 34-story New York Life Insurance Building in Manhattan, Director Alfred Emanuel Smith leaned forward in his chair one day last week and said in a firm clear voice: "I move to adopt the committee's report nominating Mr. Hoover." With a single chorus of "Ayes" all gentlemen present thereupon voted to elect Herbert Clark Hoover a director of New York Life, succeeding the late John E. Andrus (TIME, Jan. 7). From Chicago where he was transacting private business on one of his infrequent trips east from Palo Alto, Director Hoover telegraphed...
...Hoover is the second ex-President of the U. S. to become a director of New York Life. Calvin Coolidge faithfully attended directors' meetings from 1929 until his death. Director Hoover revealed last week that New York Life had urged him in 1933 to accept Mr. Coolidge's vacant chair, before they finally offered it to Dr. Angell. And everyone expected last week that the company would pay for Director Hoover's transportation across the continent to attend monthly meetings, as they had paid Director Coolidge's expenses when he went down from Northampton. Mr. Hoover...
...York Life agents celebrated his 50th anniversary with the company in 1930 by launching a three-month Buckner testimonial drive which netted $5,000,000 of life insurance each day. Last week with President Buckner's approval, the company finished a pamphlet commemorating its 90th anniversary. When Director Hoover gets his copy he will see that Thomas Buckner emphatically expects each & every director to take almost as active a part in the company's affairs as its president does...