英语词汇hooverize etc的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Hooverize, etc. Before becoming the 31st president of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover (1874–1964) had a dis- tinguished career as an engineer and administrator, popular- izing scientific management among businessmen and inspir- ing the building on the Colorado River of Boulder (now Hoover) Dam, for example. Hoover first came to national at- tention as the head of various European relief agencies and as U.S. Food Administrator during World War I. In the latter ca- pacity he met the food crisis by ending farm hoarding of crops, curbing speculation, and urging Americans to live by “the gospel of the clean plate” and to institute “wheatless and meatless” days. It was only a few days after these suggestions that the term to Hooverize began to appear in newspapers around the country, and housewives soon adopted the phrase when discussing ways to stretch food. Later, when Hoover was president during the Great Depression, more than a few derogatory terms bearing his name were invented. Shoes with hobs in them were Hoover shoes, and Hoover blankets were newspapers bums slept under. The Hoover cart was a south- ern mule-drawn wagon made from the rear axle and chassis of a discarded automobile, and a Hooverville was a collection of shacks housing the unemployed at the edges of cities throughout the country. Later Hoover Commissions under both Truman and Eisenhower studied the reorganization of the executive branch of government and suggested many im- provements that were adopted. The Hoover vacuum cleaner— hoover long a synonym for vacuum cleaner—is named for the man who founded the Hoover company in the 1920s. See alsoarmadillo.

词汇	hooverize etc
词源	Hooverize, etc. Before becoming the 31st president of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover (1874–1964) had a dis- tinguished career as an engineer and administrator, popular- izing scientific management among businessmen and inspir- ing the building on the Colorado River of Boulder (now Hoover) Dam, for example. Hoover first came to national at- tention as the head of various European relief agencies and as U.S. Food Administrator during World War I. In the latter ca- pacity he met the food crisis by ending farm hoarding of crops, curbing speculation, and urging Americans to live by “the gospel of the clean plate” and to institute “wheatless and meatless” days. It was only a few days after these suggestions that the term to Hooverize began to appear in newspapers around the country, and housewives soon adopted the phrase when discussing ways to stretch food. Later, when Hoover was president during the Great Depression, more than a few derogatory terms bearing his name were invented. Shoes with hobs in them were Hoover shoes, and Hoover blankets were newspapers bums slept under. The Hoover cart was a south- ern mule-drawn wagon made from the rear axle and chassis of a discarded automobile, and a Hooverville was a collection of shacks housing the unemployed at the edges of cities throughout the country. Later Hoover Commissions under both Truman and Eisenhower studied the reorganization of the executive branch of government and suggested many im- provements that were adopted. The Hoover vacuum cleaner— hoover long a synonym for vacuum cleaner—is named for the man who founded the Hoover company in the 1920s. See alsoarmadillo.
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