Word: hooverized
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...member of the French High Commission to the United States during the war was quoted as saying that the two greatest living Americans are Herbert Hoover and Charles M. Schwab. As president of the United States Steel Corporation and Director General, during the war, of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, Mr. Schwab stands at the top of American industry today. He has had a career that business men like to point out as "typically American", a that of a poor boy fighting his way to leadership. Members of the University who are fortunate enough to hear Mr. Schwab at the Union...
...Secretary Hoover's words, "the loss of Dr. Stratton as head of the Bureau of Standards is a real national loss. He has built up that service from a bureau devoted to scientific determination of weights and measurements to a great physical laboratory cooperating with American industry and commerce in the solution of many problems of enormous value to industry which commercial laboratories . . . have been unable to undertake...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has this year two students from the University of Louvain, sent here by the Hoover Relief Commission. When the Commission had finished its relief work, it had still a large amount of money to dispose of. In an effort to use this money as its donors would have wished, the Commission decided to expend it by sending American students to Belgian universities and men from Belgium to this country. As a result there are twelve American students in Belgium and thirty-four Belgians are scattered through such colleges as the University of Chicago, Columbia...
...contact. In New York every member of the police force refers to the ex-commissioner as "chief"--a man whose office door was open to everyone and who built up a name for fearless fairmindedness in thought and act. His recent connection with the Americanization work and with Secretary Hoover is typical of his spirit of service. Colonel Woods represents what the University likes to consider in the highest sense of the word a Harvard...
During the war he was on the staff of the Committee on Public Information and held the position of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Aviation Section of the United States Army. Since then he has been connected with the Americanization work of the American Legion and with Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce...