Word: hooverness
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...memories of the October day when President Roosevelt met with a cold reception at the gateway to his own college have faded far into the past with the tremendous approval which has been showered on him by the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll. While Harvard was 73.74 per cent for Hoover in 1932, it is now 65.11 per cent for the Roosevelt policies. This change of feeling cannot come as a great surprise to many people; it would have been startling if the College had still maintained its support for the Republican Administration...
There are two important factors to consider about this reversal: first, the sequestered character of college life in relation to national events, and secondly, the policies of Roosevelt. The strong national discontent of 1932 with Hoover did not reach into these portals for the undergraduate came only indirectly into contact with the misfortunes besieging the country, and furthermore, he disliked the uncertainty which the Roosevelt administration promised at that time. But now one hears on every side of the accomplishments of this super-man; his chief measures fall broadly into College economic teachings; and the realization has grown that Hoover...
...maintain nearly a two to one majority. The computations this morning give 2,103 votes for and 1,130 votes against. The same results have been revealed in the 13 other colleges which have assisted in the poll, nine of whom like Harvard gave their full support to Hoover in the 1932 presidential campaign...
...lent a real color to the festivities. The fact that the accomplishments which merited a degree occurred several years before when he was Governor of New York prior to his retirement, made no difference. It really is too bad that Roosevelt has received a degree for Roosevelt and Hoover on the same platform would be an unequalled combination...
...this hopeful commotion last week in no way assured early resurrections for the lean ghosts of 1929. As all lawyers know, it is a long and thankless task to corral even two-thirds of any big company's creditors including bondholders. One of President Hoover's last acts was to sign a bankruptcy bill which was supposed to make it easy for railroads to scale down top-heavy funded debt. A dozen or more carriers have since plunged into bankruptcy under this law but not one has yet been able to climb...