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Orphaned when he was 10, Hoover accumulated a fortune as an engineer by the time he was 28. He was Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Running for the presidency in 1928, he defeated Alfred E. Smith...
P.A.T. counted the violence and arrests a gain. "We have made our point," exulted one P.A.T. official. The board grimly agreed. "Force was brought to our doorstep," protested Superintendent of Schools Calvin Gross, warning that he would not wait two days next time to arrest parents who threatened yet another...
British and American elections have not fallen in the same year since 1924. Then, most voters in both countries supported what they considered the safest party; Calvin Coolidge was returned to the White House and Stanley Baldwin to 10 Downing Street. Today, in a time of general prosperity and after the shock of the assassination of an American President, the candidates who appear safest will again probably win. And while there is no mystery about the identity of the safe candidate in this country, it is difficult to say just who he is in the United Kingdom, before the election...
...feet of one witness, who heard him mutter either "poor damn cop" or "poor dumb cop." Another witness reported the killing to headquarters on Tippit's car radio, and almost immediately sirens whined through the neighborhood. Oswald paused in the doorway of a shoe store managed by one Johnny Calvin Brewer. Then, while Brewer watched, Oswald, disheveled and panting, ducked into the lobby of the Texas Theater. Cashier Julia Postal saw him, but when she heard the police sirens she stepped out of the box office. Brewer asked her if the man who had just entered the theater had bothered...
Superintendent of Schools Calvin Gross denounced it all as a "perfectly preposterous game in which everyone plays to see who can damage education most by saying they are attempting to improve it." But the P.A.T. protest proved that Negro militants no longer hold an exclusive franchise on pressuring school officials through destructive boycotts, and the argument over school desegregation has thereby reached the hottest point yet. Moreover, with both Senate candidates, Republican Kenneth Keating and Democrat Bobby Kennedy, cautiously lining up with the whites, the embattled Board of Education has lost political support...