Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expressions of confidence, such as made by the President, are faintly reminiscent of Hoover's optimism, which grew progressively stronger as the Great Depression spread westward. Economists more reputable than the President not only claim they will not know the exact causes of the recession until the statistics are all in, but they have almost to the man refrained from predicting the date when the economy will return to normalcy. As Professor Galbraith of Harvard observed recently, "Generals, at least in the past, did not plan campaigns on the assumption that the enemy would conveniently disappear...
...first time, Wernher von Braun's reach for the stars was accepted as more science than science fiction. In the summer of 1954 Von Braun and a dozen other space enthusiasts from the services and industry gathered in the Washington office of Lieut. Commander George Hoover, U.S.N., to talk about launching a satellite. Von Braun proposed to slam a 5-lb. chunk of metal into orbit with the brute force of a souped-up Redstone; the Office of Naval Research kicked in $88,000 for work on an instrumented satellite, and Project Orbiter was born. It was shortlived...
...tuned to the new sounds of criticism of the Eisenhower leadership, the Democratic chiefs are returning to Washington aggressively determined to knock down Dwight Eisenhower and his Administration. Said Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter last week: "They will try to do to Ike what they did to Hoover in his last two years...
...Francisco's Palace Hotel before he died. Harding's attack was diagnosed at first as a stomach upset, was later complicated by bronchopneumonia. But after his death attending physicians, including Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur (sometime president of the A.M.A., president of Stanford University and later Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior) reported: "We all believe he died from apoplexy or the rupture of a blood vessel in the axis of the brain near the respiratory center." Close associates of Franklin Roosevelt agreed that his health had deteriorated shockingly in the weeks before a massive cerebral hemorrhage...
Today, said Hoover, there is the "too prevalent high-school system of allowing a 13-or 14-year-old kid to choose most of his studies. Academic freedom seems now to begin at 14. A youngster's first reaction in school is to seek soft classes, not the hard work of science and mathematics. Also, he has a multitude of extracurricular activities that he considers more beguiling than hard work...