Word: hooverness
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...Fact was, Mr. Farley's operation had been neither unprecedented nor unlawful. Hoover's Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown first performed the bookkeeping trick in 1929, got Congress to validate it the following year.* But not even Congress can turn a bookkeeping trick into anything but a trick. No certified public accountant would ever have approved Jim Farley's own company books if he had tried to balance them as he did the Post Office's. No comfortable legal fiction could relieve U. S. taxpayers from making up the very real $52,000,000 which the Post Office last year...
Such was the sentence passed last spring by Director J. Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Department of Justice's Division of Investigation on Lester M. Gillis, 25. Since he was 13, pink-cheeked little Gillis had been in & out of reform school and prison as a smalltime automobile thief, hold-up man. bank robber. But he did not become a headline lawbreaker until last year when, under the name of George ("Baby Face") Nelson, he turned up in the gang of the late John Dillinger. There he won himself a reputation as a "crazy killer" with a paranoiac hatred...
...Washington, Attorney General Cummings spluttered triumphantly to newshawks: "Our men got him! Our men got him!" Chief Edgar Hoover was grim. "Yes, we got the guy but he killed two of our men. It was two lives...
...Holland and Scotland. Two years later he was a stenographer in the Treasury at Washington, gradually becoming a more & more important cog in that Department's machinery, When Supervising Architect Oscar Wenderoth resigned in 1915, Cog Wetmore agreed to take over his job "temporarily." Through Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover and the first hectic year of Roosevelt II he continued to function "temporarily." Because he was not an architect, he would not allow his title to be other than Acting Supervising Architect and, as such, his name appears on some 2,000 Federal cornerstones...
...Hoover administration was devoted to the interests of the industrialists and was controlled by them. During the dark days of February and March, 1932, they were apparently glad to admit defeat and to retire. Since then there has been a gradual revival of self-confidence. During the summer this revival expressed itself in growing but rather incoherent criticism of the Administration. The American Liberty League aroused hopes of strong constructive thinking, but they remained unfulfilled. The recent Congressional elections, however, have apparently given the movement added impetus. Perhaps the leaders of industry now realize that against a well-organized...