Word: hooverness
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...Booker T. Washington's office boy, became a Washington, D. C. lawyer. He married a Negro woman who operates a Government accounting machine. They put their boy through the University of Michigan. The Mitchells moved to Chicago in 1928, there working for the G. O. P. and Herbert Hoover's election. Arthur Mitchell had switched parties by 1932. Campaigning against Representative De Priest on the platform that the New Deal was a boon to blacks and whites alike, he declared: "I would work harder for my people than any other Congressman, but I would not keep thinking about...
...there was a great pother of excitement when Republican Oscar De Priest's wife in a blue chiffon dress, grey hat and coat and on Mrs. Herbert Hoover's invitation, went to the White House one afternoon to drink tea with white Congressmen's ladies (TIME, June 24, 1929). Mrs. Mitchell will expect a similar tea-date with Mrs. Roosevelt. "There is no prejudice against my people in the present Administration.'' the black Gentleman from Illinois told his constituents. "This is a new day under a New Deal...
...President Roosevelt should decide that no Democrat can control prices, if he should give that job to a Republican especially close to Herbert Hoover, then the New Deal would have sunk as low as Adolf Hitler felt obliged to stoop last week...
Three years ago President Hoover and that pallid, ascetic German Chancellor, Dr. Heinrich Brüning, were both pursuing the same policy: Deflation. That winter German prices fell 10%. hammered down -so the German people believe-by Dr. Brüning's implacable ''Price Dictator," Dr. Karl Gördeler...
Last week President Roosevelt named as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board a onetime Republican who, eight days before Herbert Hoover left the White House, urged upon a Senate committee a recovery program which today can hardly be distinguished from the New Deal. Recommending big relief grants to the States, a $2,500,000,000 public works outlay, domestic allotment farm relief, high income and inheritance taxes, unification of the banking system and government regulation of the securities business, the witness smiled at the startled Senators and remarked: "I'm a capitalist...