Herbert Hoover

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is not a stuffed shirt, but at times he can give the most convincing impersonation of a stuffed shirt you ever saw.

(Herbert) Hoover isn't a stuffed shirt. But at times he can give the most convincing impersonation of a stuffed shirt you ever saw.

is a man who wouldn't commit himself to the time from a hatful of watches.

He wouldn't commit himself to the time from a hatful of watches.

is incompetent --- if elected, he will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

is not alone responsible for the depression --- such a little man could not have made so big a depression.

Such a little man could not have made so big a depression.

is a man who would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.

I have the feeling that he would rather see a good cause fail than succeed if he were not the head of it.