Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great figure emerges out of this fog-the President. He is a great pilot. He skillfully avoids the shoals and rocks. . . . He is willing to bend, if necessary. . . . He is really a great man. . . . What happens in the Cabinet is never disclosed. . . . However, Mr. Hoover has a group who will handle the executive end of the Government efficiently and very honestly...
Four hundred Republicans in Boston loudly applauded the President's No. 6 Man. But in Washington there was no applause. The speech made raw nerves rawer, set Senators and observers to wondering if President Hoover, through his No. 6 Man, had attempted to start a backfire of popular resentment against the Senate...
...cheek, he prodded and pummeled the achy joints of the Senate G. O. P. Surely, he said, Secretary Adams did not mean to include in his list Senator Borah, who had "rendered greater service to the Republican party in the campaign and contributed more to its victory" than Herbert Hoover himself. Senator Brookhart, of all Republicans one of the least Regular, asked if Secretary Adams was not once himself "a distinguished insurgent in Massachusetts...
Referring to the No. 6 Man as "Mr. Foghorn Adams," Senator Harrison quoted his remarks on the greatness of President Hoover and replied, with privileged Senatorial rudeness, that the President is "as negative a quantity ... as any we have ever had." Upon Secretary Adams's praise of the Cabinet of which he is a member Senator Harrison commented: "He recommends himself pretty highly, don't you think?" After his Boston speech, and the Harrison reply, Secretary Adams went to Newport, awarded diplomas at the Navy's War College, delivered the graduation speech. It was the shortest...
...Reference to the 13 Republican Senators who helped to vote the Debenture Plan into the bill against the wishes of President Hoover...