Word: hooverish
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...California, a woman secured a divorce because her pro-Smith husband punched her Hooverish head...
This year the Midwest loomed more important than ever because it was throughout the Midwest that the Hoover nomination was most bitterly opposed. In Ohio there was Willis; in Indiana, Watson; in Illinois, Lowden; in Nebraska, Norris; in Kansas, Curtisall, except Lowden and Curtis, more downright anti-Hooverish than outright ambitious...
...that one-half of one percent is, in his opinion, as strongly alcoholic as any U. S. beverage should ever be. But he made no such declaration, perhaps because he knew that about one-third of the Prohibition Party's vote is in California and likely to be Hooverish anyway; perhaps because he knew that the total Prohibition vote in 1924 was less than one-fifth of one percent of the total vote of the country...
Another school of thought interpreted the Fess appointment as a studied rebuff to Hooverism. The committee members who made the appointment were predominantly un-Hooverish, including New York's Hilles, Connecticut's Roraback, Mrs. Hert of Kentucky and David W. Mulvane of Kansas, besides Chairman Butler. Senator Fess had energetically abetted the anti-Hoover campaign of his dead Ohio colleague, Senator Willis. Now that Senator Willis was gone, the elevation of his oldtime professor and friend seemed more calculated than sentimental...
...resignation of Assistant Secretary of War MacNider was "strategic" because his successor, Col. Charles Burton Robbins (see col. 3), is a Hooverite from Lowdenized Iowa?Charles Dewey Hilles, hitherto anti-Hooverish national vice chairman...