Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...85th Congress failed to pass a school construction bill to relieve the nation's critical classroom shortage, failed to provide for a turnover of Government in case of presidential disability, failed to appropriate funds for flood insurance, failed to approve statehood for Hawaii or Alaska, failed to follow Hoover Commission recommendations for budget-practice reform, failed to give federal aid to economically depressed areas, failed to revise lobby and campaign-spending laws. Time after time, the 85th Congress moved only halfheartedly when it moved at all. Example: it finally got around to correcting certain inequities in the McCarran-Walter...
Going along amiably with the rituals required of an elder statesman when he becomes a year older, former President Herbert Hoover, a healthy 83, boarded the liner President Hoover at San Francisco, sliced a chunk from a 5-ft.-long birthday cake modeled after the ship. Earlier, he told reporters that the state of the nation, despite threats of war and inflation, is "the best in history." He reported that his health is "fundamentally good," then qualified his diagnosis wryly: "After you pass the scriptural limit of three score and ten years, your longevity depends mainly on pills...
...partner of the late Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, was named to coordinate U.S. foreign aid. As a Congressman from 1931 to 1936, Republican Hollister had fought the New Deal, voted against Cordell Hull's Reciprocal Trade Act. He was a longstanding disciple of ex-President Herbert Hoover, and it was Hoover who urged him on the Eisenhower Administration as the successor to free-swinging Harold Stassen as director of the International Cooperation Administration. Such were the misgivings about John B. Hollister's intentions toward foreign aid that he snapped as he took office: "I certainly would...
...soon after Hollister got down to work, New York Timesman James Reston nominated him to membership in a "4-H Club" within the Administration bent on gutting foreign aid. The other members: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey (soon to resign), onetime Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (who resigned last winter), onetime Budget Director Rowland Hughes (who resigned last year, died three months ago). But the more hardheaded John Hollister saw of foreign aid the more he appreciated its hard-bitten value, and the less he attempted to cut down functions he once thought he might eliminate. This year...
...showing off the new manorhouse, former President Harry S. Truman guided an impressive flock of old friends and old antagonists through the U.S.'s newest national monument, the $21 million Harry S. Truman Library at Independence, Mo. On hand for the library's dedication: ex-President Herbert Hoover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, and durable old Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, who passed the time of day with his old colleague, thrust out his snapping-turtle neck to plant a buss on the cheek of proud...