Word: hooverizing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...adjoining column Professor William Roscoe Thayer calls attention to a practical way of keeping a clear conscience while you eat that dinner on December 25. Mr. Hoover has consented to act as Santa Claus in Europe. Back...
Remember that, thanks to Mr. Hoover's wonderful organization, ten dollars will keep a child alive until next summer. As the drive will end on January 1, we must all act without delay. WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER '81. December...
...should like to call the attention, through the CRIMSON, of Harvard undergraduates to the "Hoover Drive," which has been organized in Cambridge. I do not know whether the students themselves have thought of forming a committee of their own, but the time is so short, and the need so urgent, that no appeal can be superfluous...
...Hoover has stated the situation with his usual directness and brevity. In the desolated parts of Europe today, the parts which cannot provide even the scantiest food to keep all their population alive, there are three million and a half children, being fed by supplies from this country. If these supplies should fail for a fortnight, those three million and a half innocent little boys and girls would perish. We must see to feeding them through the winter until next year's crops become available, about the middle of July...
...provide the necessary food, Mr. Hoover estimates that thirty million dollars will be required, and already in every city and town of the United States, a committee is working to collect the funds. This is an object which Harvard men cannot pass by. One dollar given will keep a child alive for a month; ten dollars will keep a child until the next harvest. Even ten cents will be gratefully received and will help nourish one of the starving. No matter, therefore, how restricted a student may be himself, he can contribute his mite to those who need it most...