Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME offered (and offers) no apology for having pre-estimated for each & every member of the Hoover Cabinet the likelihood of their becoming "Yes Men" to their busy Chief.-ED.
THE HOOVER BUSINESS CONFERENCE IS A DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST THE WORKING MASSES.
"The President considers that the misguided youths calling themselves communists . . . should be released and sent to their parents. He does not believe any such discourtesy seriously injures the Republic and a night in jail is only doing them the favor of giving them a cheap martyrdom.*
¶ "Herbert Hoover" was written last week upon H. J. res. 133, thus completing the enactment of legislation to reduce 1929 income and corporation taxes by 1%.
¶ Last week two of President Hoover's friends caused him some embarrassment. His attorney, Edwin Paul Shattuck. was being capitalized by the Cuba Sugar Lobby because of White House connections (see p. 9). His business leader Julius Howland Barnes appeared to be involved in controversy with the Federal Farm...