Word: hooverized
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Time and again we have heard it said by Hoover's critics, as well as by those who speak merely from ignorance, that were he to be vested with the presidential powers we should have an absolute one-man government. After our recent experiences with a potentate in the White House, such fears are entirely natural, but, as I shall attempt to show, absolutely groundless...
From the very beginning of the World War, Hoover's strategy was to produce results, not through dictation but through cooperation. As food "Administrator," a title chosen by himself, Hoover did not attempt to fulfill his talk by immediately having laws passed and rationing the nation, instead he put the whole business of producing and conserving food on a voluntary basis, depending on the concerted effort of the people in the right direction...
...ballot of the Literary Digest. Here, too--I don't know the actual figures--the Republicans were far in the lead, though, or because, the Literary Digest did everything in its power to make the ballot representative. The only difference is that Harvard and Princeton gave a majority to Hoover, while the Literary Digest ballot seems to indicate that the country wants Leonard Wood. GEOFFREY BOLTON...
...HAVEN, Conn., May 12.--Herbert Hoover received the nomination for President on the third ballot at the Yale Republican convention held here today...
...scores of the ballots are as follows: First ballot, Hoover 1239, Leonard Wood 968, Frank O. Lowden 173, Hiram Johnson 156; second ballot, Hoover 1397, Wood 1125, Johnson 52; third ballot, Hoover 1447, Wood...