Word: hooverness
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...device, is a bad man to have for a political foe. In 1928 he delivered Mississippi to Al Smith 5-to-1, "me a Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert...
...most famous member of the first full four year course graduating class (1895) at Leland Stanford University (Leland Stanford, Cel) is ex-president Herbert Hoover. He still lives on the campus...
...Legion. He drinks milk because a Wartime dose of mustard gas makes liquor unpalatable. A director of Puget Sound Power & Light Co., Nominee Odlin during the campaign called public attention to the fact that Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt owns private utility stock. Since he is as conservative as Herbert Hoover, Washington voters will have no complaint against obscurity of issues in the Senatorial race this autumn. And since Washington's registration is now 60%, Democratic, it is likely that there will be an EPIW Senator at Washington, if not an EPIC Governor in California...
...notch songwriting team. When they work on a show, they hire a hotel room, stay in it until the show is ready for rehearsal. They refer to typical musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember You By," "Dancing in the Dark," "Shine on Your Shoes," "New Sun in the Sky") have been critically commended for their literacy, their agile rhymes, their musical variety...
...ground for the year. Only a four-point drop in the Dow-Jones industrial averages was needed for chart-watchers to say that a bear market had been in progress for the major part of the New Deal. In terms of gold, stock prices were barely above the Hoover lows...