Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harsh Fact. "The trouble is," said former President Herbert Hoover in Manhattan, "that we are turning out annually from our institutions of higher education perhaps fewer than half as many scientists and engineers as we did seven years ago. The greatest enemy of all mankind, the Communists, are turning out twice or possibly three times as many as we do. Our higher institutions of learning have the capacity to train the recruits we need. The harsh fact is that the high schools are not preparing youngsters for the entrance requirements which must be maintained by our institutions training scientists...
...Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University in 1919, held a fund-raising banquet in Los Angeles, got a message from the ex-President saluting its archives as "the records of the highest idealism yet expressed by man . . . the minutes of every important effort of men to make peace." Asked by a Manhattan reporter for his views on another matter-the health of the U.S. economy-Hoover disclosed that economic crystal gazing is no longer for him: "I'm through with that sort of thing. I'm busy writing...
...Beitz, general manager of Krupp Industries, suggested that the job of economic world uplift is too big for the investors of any one country, instead proposed that investors form a multi-nation investment association in much the same manner that six individual contracting companies joined together to build the Hoover Dam. Such pooling, said Industrialist Beitz, would provide "a great new source of investment capital." It would be a private world bank that would receive and that would lend local currencies for investment anywhere in the world...
...summons to appear in Judge Davies' court, or that his lawyers had walked out on the showdown hearing.) Teen-age girls had "been taken by the FBI and held incommunicado for hours of questioning while their frantic parents knew nothing of their whereabouts." (Said FBI Director John Edgar Hoover: Faubus was "disseminating falsehoods...
Maurice Halperin, onetime chairman of Boston University's department of Latin American regional studies, who fled to Mexico in 1954 before a scheduled questioning by university authorities. FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover included Halperin's name with that of Harry Dexter White in a list of suspected Communist agents sent to President Truman in 1945; according to ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley, Halperin gave her secret documents and party dues when he was employed...