Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders are responsible for their failures only in the governing sector and cannot be held responsible for the failure of a nation as a whole ... In 1930 and 1931 we blamed all the evils that this country was then suffering, from the drought to the World Depression, on Herbert Hoover. If we had continued to hold those beliefs, we would never have learned anything from that experience. We would have dismissed it as being a question of leadership, and would have done nothing to prevent such an experience from happening again . . . Democracy and capitalism are institutions which are geared...
...schoolteacher was John Adams, who became the U.S.'s first Vice President, its second President, and the patriarch of a remarkable clan of statesmen and historians that ranged from his son, John Quincy Adams the sixth President, to Charles Francis Adams,* Secretary of the Navy under President Hoover. In his diary, an autobiography and letters by the hundreds, John Adams chronicled his career, set the firm pattern for his descendants of making history with one hand and writing about it with the other. Down through the generations, the members of the family faithfully sent their own papers...
Cruel Hoaxes. Amid the nationwide uproar-President Herbert Hoover asked the fledgling FBI to help, and Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army, mindful of the "miraculous accomplishments" God had wrought through the army's lost and found department, urged her pious legions to keep an eye out for the missing 2O-month-old child-there were countless cruel hoaxes and honest if hysterical mistakes by people who claimed to have made contact with the kidnaper. One report came from John F. Condon, a retired New York schoolteacher who, aroused by the crime, had written to the Bronx Home...
...King and Queen of Siam were on hand for the first luncheon. President Herbert Hoover spoke from Washington. Even in the chauffeurs' waiting room, champagne flowed. Mr. Bagby's Musical Mornings were scheduled in the ballroom (Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, et al.). Thus, 30 years ago, the new Waldorf-Astoria opened on Manhattan's Park Avenue, setting a tone of stately, if slightly too chromium-plated, elegance that lasted nearly into the days of Hiltonization. This week, for the first time since the Waldorf debut, a new hotel opened in Manhattan, but the atmosphere was different...
...Herbert Hoover Jr., W6ZH and K6ZH