Word: hooverness
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...Harrison, as head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank which has exercised a dominating influence over the entire Federal Reserve System and the U. S. Treasury, led New York influences in counseling the deflation policy of the Hoover administration. ... It was your personal fate through lack of understanding of monetary forces to be the central figure in the world's greatest, most inexcusable and most costly tragedy of financial leadership. I ask by what right do you now presume to initiate even a partial return to your policies which have been tested and proved so ruinous...
...Nineteen per cent of those who voted for Roosevelt in 1932 now vote against him. Thirty-four per cent of those who voted for Hoover in 1932 now vote for Roosevelt...
Greek sponge divers at Tarpon Springs wrecked the Key West sponge trade. Machinery replaced oldtime cigar makers, and Tampa replaced Key West as a centre of cigar manufacture. American Tobacco Co. moved its Key West plant first to Tampa, then to Trenton, N. J. In 1930. President Hoover decommissioned the naval station in the name of economy. The soldiers moved away, too. Pan American Airways out of Miami took the cream off the passenger traffic to Cuba. The Florida East Coast R. R. reduced its Key West schedule to one train a day and the Atlantic Coast Line...
...other woman of her time-the Nobel Prize awarded to her, her husband and Becquerel in 1903, to her alone in 1911; the gram of radium presented to her by President Harding in 1921 in behalf of U. S. admirers; the $50,000 given her by President Hoover in 1929. But modest Mme Curie always turned away from such honors, such gifts. At her bedside last week were her daughters-Eve, the musician, Irene the scientist who worked with her husband in better quarters but in much the same spirit as Pierre and Marie Curie a generation before them...
...Pulitzers sold the New York World, Post and Gatty flew around the world, the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, Herbert Hoover was defeated, Calvin Coolidge died while the radio blackamoors recited their ponderous and diverse tale. It took a whole year for Andy to realize the iniquity of Madame Queen, who punctuated their alliance with a breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have...