Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principles on which the award is made distinguish it from other trophies such as the Wingate and Wendell awards in baseball in which excellence, is the criterion. The donors of the Tudor Trophy have taken another yardstick by which to base their choice; the recipient's value to Harvard hockey, not so much in his superior ability as in his service, development and possession of that intangible quality "heart". According to the donors these are the qualities which they found were best exemplified in the man whose name the Trophy bears. It is not only a fitting tribute...
Destroyers and Cruisers. In the destroyer category it may be possible to strike a simple ratio among the Powers, but cruisers come in so many sizes of such widely different fighting power that they present a highly complex problem in comparison, perhaps to be solved with the famed "Hoover Yardstick" (TIME, Sept. 23). Exactly what this is the Engineer-President has never publicly explained; and the Sea Lords of the British Admiralty to whom it has been privately explained have never been enthusiastic. But last week Ramsay MacDonald said in his hearty ringing way: "We shall deal with every class...
...Yardstick Across Knee. To appreciate the French note one must recall that when President Hoover's disarmament plan was first broached its two chief points were: 1) reduction, not mere limitation of armaments; and 2) reduction according to a mathematical formula, the "Hoover yardstick." Furthermore the principal achievement of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald at Washington was their public joint statement exalting the Kellogg Pact as the cornerstone of peace and disarmament, and their private decision that the question of "freedom of the seas" should not be raised at the London conference...
...upon Article VIII of the covenant [of the League of Nations] that the French Government intend to base reductions of their armaments. It is, indeed, upon this basis alone?a basis which does not imply a prior application of mathematical ratios [the "Hoover yardstick''] . . . that it would be possible, in their opinion, to work out an agreement...
Such words are nothing short of first, reproaching the President with abandoning his major premise, reduction of armaments, then breaking the "Hoover yardstick" across one's knee, and finally waving the red rag of the League of Nations at a Republican to see if he will charge...