Word: hooverness
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...present a punch which Japan will deliver as soon as she dares. But the Okada answers, when cabled to Washington, gave Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson a fine chance to proclaim loudly and publicly for the Roosevelt Administration the U. S. naval policy laid down by President Hoover when he called for a 33 1/2% cut in the navies of the Great Powers...
Asked why he had come down from Herbert Hoover's 33 1/2%, Secretary Swanson snapped, "Well, we will see if they accept 20% before we go any further...
...almost reverential awe when he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles for the Post-Dispatch's "Dignity Page" called "The Plight of the Country." This series composed one of the most thoughtful and fair-minded journalistic inquiries into the Depression and such remedies as the Hoover Administration was applying. Last year Ross acted as president of the Gridiron Club. For years he had helped to stage-manage its shows, with the aid of a stop watch to see that no skit, no song lagged beyond its allotted time. Today he has one son at Dartmouth, another...
Wisconsin knows Walter Jodok Kohler as its onetime conservative Republican Governor who was a great and good friend of Herbert Clark Hoover. To the U. S. at large, however, he is THE Kohler of Kohler. maker of washstands, bathtubs, plumbing fixtures. He is also the maker of Kohler, the model industrial village which adjoins his large estate and his plant outside Sheboygan...
Engaged. Mildred Hall, 29, secretary to Mrs. Herbert Hoover; and Thomas Allen Campbell, 33, Los Angeles school teacher, son of onetime Governor of Arizona Thomas Edward Campbell...