Word: hooverness
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...airmail to fly. A secondary cause was the charge, pooh-poohed by the Administration but still repeated by many onlookers, that the blow was struck unfairly, before hearing all the defendants' stories, and struck at the wrong target. If airmail carriers had played a crooked game with President Hoover's Postmaster General Brown, they had only followed rules laid down by him as the umpire. It seemed fair enough to change the game's rules, not fair to knock out the obedient players. The wage of connivance, retorted the Administration, is punishment. By last week the rules...
...major executive without an executive post when he went on Katy's board of directors last year. With him went William Marcus Greve, onetime president of New York Investors, Inc., now in receivership, who is under indictment for using the mails to defraud. Arthur Atwood Ballantine, President Hoover's able Undersecretary of the Treasury, was elected a director of New York Life Insurance Co. Harvard-graduated, an expert on taxation, he remained at the Treasury at the request of President Roosevelt until last May, backstopped Secretary Woodin in the opening months of the New Deal...
...East St. Louis, Ill. Harry Radel was watching a motion picture when a stranger rose up near him, struck him on the head with a club. Said the stranger to the police: "That fellow looked like Hoover...
...have been carted off to the inevitable oblivion of church fairs and charity libraries, such photographic collections as "The Roosevelt Year" will be reopened and studied over. Pictures tell a story more easily, more quickly, and more convincingly than any conceivable collection of words. The tragic picture of Herbert Hoover and President Roosevelt driving together on March 4, 1933, both subdued at the ruins of a great country, approaches the classic. The photographs of riots and lynchings; cruel, pathetic, bestial, describe the animal man with a conciseness unattainable otherwise. The titles and the selection of pictures of "The Roosevelt Year...
...rooms above and below, all entrances and exits. Every culvert, bridgehead and tunnel through which the President is to pass bears his inspection. His vigilance has often been rewarded. After he for bade President Harding to board an Ohio river boat, the boat sank. A platform he prevented Herbert Hoover from mounting to make a speech collapsed, gutted by termites, not long after...