Word: hooverness
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...endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia, Col. Raymond Robins who wandered off among the mountains of North Carolina while en route to visit President Hoover (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932, et seq.). In Russia, where the Colonel headed a U. S. Red Cross mission in bloody 1917 and which he revisited on Red May Day 1933, Raymond Robins is known as a man of phenomenal memory, able to recall in minute detail his conversations with Nikolai Lenin...
...could get an official okay on the transaction. He actually bought the Loew shares on the strength of a reported verbal agreement between one William Thompson, of the Attorney General's staff, and Saul E. Rogers, Fox lawyer. Then the Coolidge Administration ended, the Hoover Administration began and-as Mr. Fox put it last week- "a gentleman from somewhere in the Minnesotas" became the new Attorney General...
...inability to make use of the experience and thought of an intelligent opposition the government of Mr. Roosevelt does not stand alone. That failure accounts for many of the major blunders of American history, from the suppression of Nicholas Biddle's National Bank to the panic strategy of Herbert Hoover. Where there is no coherent opposition there can be no sincere, continuous criticism of principle; democracy has been characterized by the lack of coherent opposition, for the reason that no man can or should have the humility and patience to convince a bureau, or a department, strong in the sanction...
...Harking to the pleas of Missouri's Governor Park, onetime Governor Caulfield and Senator Bennett Champ Clark, President Roosevelt pardoned Conrad Henry Mann, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Republican leader and good friend of Herbert Hoover. Mr. Mann had been convicted of operating a lottery for the Fraternal Order of Eagles in 1930. Another prominent Republican, Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, was acquitted of a similar charge in connection with a Moose lottery last month. Fat, white-haired Mr. Mann served in Manhattan's Federal House of Detention four hours of his five-month...
...first Mrs. Wilson and Margaret, who had a pretty voice, took great pride in helping plan the musicales. Mrs. Harding, whose favorite piece was "The End of a Perfect Day," was less interested. Mrs. Coolidge, who plays the piano a bit herself, liked Rachmaninoff and Violinist Albert Spalding. Mrs. Hoover's favorite musician was Harpist Mildred Dilling, whose most famed pupil is Harpo Marx...