Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exactly half a century ago this summer that the call to arms was sounded, and half a century ago this fall that it was answered. Roosevelt swept the bewildered Herbert Hoover out of the White House by a landslide of 472 electoral votes to 59. The new Congress too was ready for bold leadership-ready indeed to give up much of its own authority-and in Roosevelt's legendary first hundred days he won approval of 15 major legislative innovations. Many of the New Deal's experiments failed or faltered into limbo, but others became part...
...will go further and impose a new embargo on grain shipments, which would swell the U.S. agricultural surplus and depress farm prices and incomes. Their concern stems from their bitter experience with the embargo that President Carter declared two years ago after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Says Jared Hoover, who farms 1,400 acres outside Abilene, Kans.: "I can understand suspending talks on a new agreement with Moscow. But we should have enough history under our belts to teach us a lesson. Despite Carter's embargo, the Russians got all the grain they needed. They didn...
...roster of 20th century Presidents who have sampled the delights of fly fishing is impressive: Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower and, of course, Jimmy Carter. In "Spruce Creek Diary," a 4,000-word article that appears in the current issue of Fly Fisherman, Carter, perhaps the most avid presidential devotee of the sport, recalls with affection his fishing vacation last May in Pennsylvania. In the piece, Carter laments the loss of two prized handcrafted fly rods, which were stolen during his move from Washington to Plains, Ga. "These rods, not the election campaign," he writes, "seemed...
Buckley embroiders this story with subplots and uneven characterizations of such personages as Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Dean Acheson, Nikita Khrushchev and Charles de Gaulle. The results are mixed. The author's portrait of Hoover, for example, seems a weak parody of old newsweeklies: "Jut-jawed, beefy, all business...
...Republican Presidents, the opposite is true. The Dow fell an average 12.4% in the twelve months after the Inaugurations of Herbert Hoover, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. It is down in 1981 too, by about...