Word: hooverness
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...three years Admiral William Veazie Pratt was Chief of Naval Operations and thus No. 1 professional in the service, he had to swallow many a bitter pill. The London Treaty (1930) put the Navy's future into a diplomatic straitjacket. In the name of peace and disarmament, President Hoover whittled away at its appropriation year after year, almost brought its building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority to Japan. Last...
...delivered a telling blow to Herbert Hoover, whose followers in California have lately been working like beavers to root Senator Johnson out of public life...
President Hoover would have answered such a question by stolidly staring at his vest buttons. President Coolidge would have adroitly turned the conversation to the White House dogs. But President Roosevelt, too smart a politician to let even his best friends dirty up his administration with their greedy tricks, was ready to meet the issue headon. With a righteous ring the President answered the question not in direct quotations but in such a way that every newshawk got his meaning: the practice of lawyers capitalizing on their political connections is not in keeping with the spirit of his administration, since...
...move seemed precisely that. They concluded that his 40% to 50% devaluation of the dollars in every U. S. citizen's pocket will so cheapen the U. S. national debt that in "real money" it will be less under President Roosevelt this year than it was under President Hoover...
...Gannett papers supported Herbert Hoover in 1932 and are still dry enough to refuse all liquor advertising, but since the first indications of a managed currency Publisher Gannett has been an ardent New Dealer. Secretary Morgenthau is one of his friends. So is Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren of Cornell, whose views the Agriculturist has long reflected. Publisher Gannett saw a chance not only to oblige his friend and neighbor, but also to turn a pretty profit if the New Deal works out as he hopes...