Word: beavered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Hoover, the Administration's busy but not unworried Beaver Man, said he would stay at his desk in Washington. He had duties. He was the leading candidate and his lead rested on his record. To speak for him in Kansas City went James W. Good, who managed Mr. Coolidge in the West four years ago. Mr. Good put up big placards asking: "Who but Hoover...
...preferential primary, leaving the delegates uninstructed, and three of the 19 delegates elected were regarded as Hooverites. But the popular vote stood-Goff 120,337; Hoover, 105,876. The usual comments were made: 1) That the Hoover boom had passed its peak, would now collapse; 2) That the Beaver Man had made a splendid showing...
Candidate Hoover last week acknowledged Secretary Mellon's cautious endorsement of Hooverism, by letting it be known -some said he told President Coolidge in person-that if President Coolidge would run again, he, the Administration's busy Beaver Man would of course withdraw his own candidacy and continue at his duties...
Hooverites thrilled last week, to hear the voice of the busy Beaver Man, himself, coming to them over the radio. It was not that he said very much?just a few well-chosen words spoken in Washington in connection with a national oratorical contest for school children which was won by one James R. Moore, 17, of Somerset...
...minutes later Hooverites who did not switch off their radios after the Beaver Man had finished, were startled, shocked, prodded into indignation by another voice which denounced Candidate Hoover as a "tool of the capitalists...