Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...under McKinley and Roosevelt I, then the latter's Secretary of State and died (aged 91) in 1937. Now, as in no other period of U. S. history, there is a dearth of Elders. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes's job disqualifies him. Ex-President Herbert Hoover remains too closely identified with his wing of the Republican Party to seem Olympian when he sounds off. His Cabinet as a whole are out of public sight and mind...
...notable exception is Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State. Last week Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, 71, suddenly reappeared in the public eye in a way which clearly rated him the one real Elder Statesman now on the U. S. scene...
...turn of the century; sex crimes of violence are lower per capita of population than any city of comparable size in the U. S.; bunco-men and pickpockets fight shy of San Francisco; robberies and burglaries are constantly decreasing; in short, no less an authority than Director J. Edgar Hoover has described San Francisco as the "white spot of the nation," so far as crime is concerned...
Among Republicans, Thomas Edmund Dewey rose from 27% (before the Hines conviction-see below) to 50%; Michigan's Vandenberg with 15% kept second place, ahead of Ohio's Taft (13%). Herbert Hoover piled up 5%, sped past Alf Landon to capture fourth place...
...they want to find out, let them read Designs in Scarlet. The customer was Courtney Ryley Cooper, onetime newsboy, salesman, marine, circus pressagent, vaudeville actor, star reporter, popular fiction writer and good pal of J. Edgar Hoover, who calls him "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." Author Cooper was merely propositioning women in order to make a first-hand survey of U. S. white slavery. (Sponsors: the F. B. I. and the Post Office Inspection Department...