Word: hoover
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...Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina), authority on state and federal constitutional law, the only man in this century whose appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate; of a heart attack; in Washington. In 1930, after his nomination to the court by President Hoover, scholarly, genial Judge Parker became the subject of a debate triggered mainly by the American Federation of Labor, because of an opinion he had written sustaining a "yellow-dog" contract (wherein new employees promise their employers in writing that they will not join a union). Parker explained that...
MASTERS OF DECEIT (374 pp.)-J. Edgar Hoover-Holt...
...Edgar Hoover, who is not and never has been a member of the Communist Party, undoubtedly knows more details about the subject than anyone except those who have been and are not. From the Communist Manifesto to the latest hindsights of a lapsed Marxist, the literature of Communism has largely been professional and confessional, written by insiders. The FBI chief's book belongs to a smaller but useful class of books by those who, concerned with the suppression of Communism, look at it from the outside. Hoover has written a primer-in a sense a how-to-do-them...
...Communist Party numbered only 22,600 members in 1955, but Hoover takes special care to point out: "When the Communist Party was at its peak in the U.S. [80,000 in 1944], it was stronger in numbers than the Soviet Party was at the time it seized power in Russia." Hoover has followed the course of American Communism with the wary devotion of a seething-eye dog. From the time (1919) when he was asked to write a special report on U.S. Communism for the Attorney General, he has not changed but enlarged his mind...
...think the CAB-and, for that matter, all agencies -should confine their hearings wholly to development of facts, call on contesting lawyers only when the facts are in doubt. Says one lawyer: "This would cut down the time of airline hearings from three months to three days." Both the Hoover Commission and the American Bar Association want more drastic changes; they recommend transfer of the agencies' judicial functions to the courts. This would free the agencies to investigate and make decisions, leave the courts to enforce their decisions with injunctions or penalties...