Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folded, as the circular screen showed movies of U.S. great scenery and U.S. great works. It was the Fourth of July. Suddenly, when the screen showed an aerial view of scarred old mountains and a broad lake and in the midst of them the Colorado River's gleaming Hoover Dam, the old man acknowledged the applause of a small group of Americans standing around him. Thus was Herbert Clark Hoover, 83, happily reminded of his days as President of the U.S. (1929-33) as he served his Government still another time as President Eisenhower's personal representative...
...Herbert Hoover had also gone to Brussels, in a sense, as an honored house guest of the Belgian people. He went first to Brussels in 1914, a distinguished engineer, as head of the Belgian Relief Commission, which helped save the Belgian people from starvation in World War I. And it was in his role as a house guest even more than in his role of presidential representative that Herbert Hoover was able, as he delivered a formal Fourth of July address in the Grand Auditorium that night, to command attention and respect with a sentence: "I would not be your...
...Ughh!" The violins swelled and the choral voices droned: "He started the first gossip column in town; Don Ameche invented the telephone for Walter so he could send out the news; he reported the way Jolson made people laugh and cry; and he helped J. Edgar Hoover with the FBI." From ringside, Rival Columnist Leonard Lyons whispered hoarsely: "And on the seventh day, he rested...
...overcrowded schools, the urban slums, the obsolescent highways, and the inadequate health facilities throughout the nation give a different picture. But correction of these conditions is generally beyond the scope or daring of private enterprise. It is not, however, outside the realm of government concern, Presidents Eisenhower and Hoover to the contrary notwithstanding...
During and after World War II, he took on job after job, including posts in the Office of Production Management, the Navy, War Manpower Commission, Labor Department, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Hoover Commission. In 1948 Flemming returned to his old school as the first lay president of 117-year-old Ohio Wesleyan. But he was back in Washington as Defense Mobilization director during the Korean war, stayed on under Republican President Dwight Eisenhower until 1957, when he returned to Ohio Wesleyan...