Hooverize during WWI meant economize on food.
As food administrator Herbert Hoover urged meatless meals and wheatless days to save food for Europeans, the term Hooverize came to signify economizing. Puerto Rico is represented in the U.S. House by a resident commissioner in Washington who has a voice but no vote.
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