Word: hooverness
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...Portland, Ore. convention seemed to reach full tide last week on the silvery shores of Miami. A potent convert to prepayment without "usury" was Hanford MacNider of Iowa, onetime (1921) National Commander, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War, onetime (1930-32) Minister to Canada. In Hoover times. Republican MacNider had stoutly battled the Bonuseers but now he owed no political loyalty to the New Deal. However, at the heart of the Bonus agitation lay, as usual, a perfectly good Democrat, Representative Wright Patman of Texas. No. 1 Bonuseer, he was appointed to the sub-committee of nine which sweated...
...Washington, President Roosevelt, like Coolidge and Hoover before him, was all cocked and primed to veto any Bonus legislation a politically-minded Congress might dare to send...
Once a highschool teacher, small, grey, solemn Alfred Adams Wheat retains the manner and appearance of a pedagog. Born in New Hampshire of old Yankee stock, he entered the District of Columbia bar in 1891. A Republican, he was appointed by President Hoover in 1929 to the District of Columbia's Supreme Court bench, where he moved up next year to be Chief Justice. From that bench last week he handed President Roosevelt's social program a major set-back by declaring the Railroad Retirement Act unconstitutional, granting an injunction against its operation...
...path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President Harding made him Undersecretary of State, later Ambassador to Belgium. President Coolidge appointed him Ambassador to Italy. He got the job of taking President-elect Hoover on a personally conducted tour of South America. Ultimately President Hoover made him Chairman of the Tariff Commission, a job which he did not like and held for only a year...
...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...