Word: edgar
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...longtime boss (38 years) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover is a rare fixture in Government. He is serving under his sixth President, always gets the money he wants without a murmur from Congress, has built an international reputation as a G-man who rounds up Communists with the same efficiency that he tracks down criminals. But every so often, Hoover comes in for criticism-Nebraska's Senator George Norris once called him "the greatest hound for publicity on the American continent." And last week, out of a clear blue Democratic sky, came...
Poltergeist & Poppycock. "The legends," said Ferry, "shrink in the washing." But J. Edgar Hoover, "the indubitable mandarin of anti-Communism in the U.S.," is "as responsible as any person" for "keeping the Red poltergeist hovering in the national consciousness." Hoover's constant warnings against Soviet espionage in the U.S. are right off "an old line . . . and its success year after year is a tribute to the trance into which his sermons throw Americans, not excepting Congressmen. Mr. Hoover is, after all, our official spy swatter. In these persistent reports about espionage and sabotage, is he delicately telling us that...
Next day Hoover's boss, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, answered Ferry. Said Kennedy: "A major reason for the numerical weakness and lack of broad influence of the Communist Party in the U.S. is the dedication and effort of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Those who dismiss the problem of Communist espionage perform a disservice to the nation. I also have said many times that I think those who see a Communist under every chair are similarly misled. I say to those on both extremes of this question: leave the job to the experts. Mr. Hoover is my expert...
...fact, though illegal raids and destructive boycotts by farmers have become increasingly common over the past few years, no French government has dared take action. Last week, armed with an ambitious new agricultural reform law, Agriculture Minister Edgar Pisani set out instead to reorganize a chaotic farm structure that, as one French farm leader cracked, "makes the United States problem of overproduction seem simple by contrast...
...Died. Edgar H. Dixon, 57, president of the $1 billion Middle South Utilities .Inc., and the man in the eye of the 1955 Dixon-Yates storm over a $107 million contract to supply private power in the Tennessee Valley Authority area; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington, D.C. After advocates of public power forced a Senate investigation, charging that it was all a scheme to cripple TVA, President Eisenhower was eventually forced to cancel the deal; Dixon vainly sued the Government for $1,867,454 that he claimed his company lost in the squabble...