Word: hooverness
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...King Albert's little Belgium again sent the tartest note to the U. S. State Department, snapped that she signed her debt agreement only after verbal assurances in Washington that her payments to the U. S. would be "amply covered by German reparations payments" shut off by the Hoover Moratorium...
...R.F.C. with added grants for its financing. This is a much neglected but very important sector of the Recovery program; on it devolves the responsibility for huge loans and expenditures to offset the paralysis of the private money markets. The R.F.C. may be a hangover from the wicked Hoover regime, but it has its points, nevertheless. CASTOR...
...Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador (no lady); next major diplomat, Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay (Lady Lindsay absent, ill). A second breach of precedent became evident as the diplomats toiled past. Instead of simply shaking hands like Mr. Coolidge or of saying "How do you do?" like Mr. & Mrs. Hoover, President and Mrs. Roosevelt greeted familiars by their first names, caught from aides and unerringly repeated such names as "Accioly," "Hsia," "Zaldumbide," "Garreau-Dombasle." After China's Minister and Mme Sao-ke Alfred Sze (black brocaded chiffon kimono and diamond tiara), after Siam's Minister and Princess Damras...
...Economics A Dr. Abbott, Sec. E. F Memorial Hall Dr. Anderson, Sec. J, L Memorial Hall Dr. Crane, Sec. A. D Memorial Hall Mr. Daly, Sec. T Memorial Hall Dr. Eaton, Sec. O Memorial Hall Mr. Fox, Sec. B Memorial Hall Professor Frickey, Sec. M, N Memorial Hall Dr. Hoover, Sec. H Memorial Hall Dr. Hunt, Sec. I, K Memorial Hall Mr. Lamb, Sec. R New Lect. Hall Mr. Leighton, Sec. C New Lect. Hall Mr. Ross, Sec. G New Lect. Hall Mr. Smith, Sec. Q New Lect. Hall Mr. Sweezy, Sec. S New Lect. Hall Mr. Walsh...
Unfortunately these haleyon days could not last forever. Mr. Hoover retired to become the squire of Palo Alto, and Mr. Brown awoke one morning to find himself on trial for accepting bribes. But the unkindest cut of all was when his mistress turned on him and became the chief witness for the prosecution. Poor Mr. Brown's cup is filled to overflowing. As his lawyer so feelingly put it to the jury, "Subconsciously, somewhere in his mind, Brown hopes to be a hero in the mind of the woman he loves. Love is a strange thing indeed. He is married...