Beaverishness
Sirs:
Has TIME, usually long of memory, forgotten the well-turned epithet with which, during the campaign, it tabbed Nominee Herbert Hoover "Beaver Man"? Has TIME, usually alert of perception, been blind to the snug fit of this same epithet to President Herbert Hoover, Virginia vacationist, as he "totes stones" and builds dams about his Rapidan camp? In the campaign, Beaver Man had only a secondary meaning hard working. Now it has a primary significance which TIME has failed to emphasize-dam builder. If ever there was a Beaver Man, it is this 195-lb....
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