Word: hooverness
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...voted for: 18th Amendment (1917), Volstead Act (1919), Soldier Bonus (1924), Reapportionment (1929), Hoover moratorium (1931), Muscle Shoals (1931-33), RFC (1952), Bonus (1932), Repeal (1933), Economy Act (1933;), 16-to-1 silver (1933), AAA (1933), NIRA (1933), abrogating gold contracts (1933), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934), stock exchange regulation...
...motive of wanton pomp or curiosity was leading President Roosevelt thither. When President Hoover visited St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John in 1931, he shocked their inhabitants by calling their domicile an "effective poorhouse." President Roosevelt has already expressed his intention of making the three little Virgins into a New Deal archipelago...
...enough to ridicule him. When a shopkeeper hung a caricature of him in his window, Norton I smashed it with impunity. His decrees, one of which directed the erection of a bridge from Oakland to Yerba Buena Island which was begun 63 years later under the reign of Herbert Hoover, were solemnly printed in newspapers. Banks cashed his modest, worthless checks and people took his imperial banknotes bearing 7% interest, which he promised to redeem in 1880. That year Norton I died...
...with sufficient quotations, he called on the Library of Congress for poetic phrases. Flowers were ordered for her daily . . . purple orchids. These carried a special message . . . and when she appeared she always wore a single one high on the left shoulder." Thus did the late Irwin H. ("Ike") Hoover, longtime chief usher at the White House, describe in the Satevepost the nine-month courtship and marriage in 1915 of the 28th President of the U. S. and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait...
Stockholder Henry Boomsma obtained a court order temporarily restraining the California Delta Farms, Inc. from selling $150-an-acre land to Herbert Hoover for $50 an acre, on the ground that such a sale would place Citizen Hoover under an obligation to the directors of California Delta Farms...