Word: hooverizing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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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...
...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...
...remedy for this threatening tide of Bolshevism on the one hand, and the intrigues of autocracy on the other, Hoover holds forth the League of Nations, maintaining that--"Regardless of what any of us may think should have been the provisions of either the League or the Treaty, we and the world should not be kept waiting longer for settlement. The whole process of peace has been necessarily one of compromises, and so long as the final form gives us freedom of action and room for constructive development of peace I believe it should be accepted." R. J. BURNS...