Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beginning of justice," U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren once wrote, "is the capacity to generalize and make objective one's private sense of wrong." Last week Chief Justice Warren's court generalized its way into two specific surprises that rocked the FBI and its chief, J. Edgar Hoover, raised legal brows and shook corporate board rooms across the U.S. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Direction Disputed, The Jencks Case, The Du Pont Case and BUSINESS, The $2.7 Billion Question...
Elsewhere, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, candidate for governor of New York, spoke in the Union, was later swept into the Albany State House, and returned to the Yard in the spring to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration. Herbert Hoover was not so generous with his time; he was able to speak for only a few minutes on his way through the Square, but, in a CRIMSON-sponsored poll of the University, he was found to be the most popular candidate among Harvard men anyway...
Wise old Albert E. Hart '80, Eaton Professor of Government, solemnly announced that he was "strong for Hoover" because "the most important thing is that he is a real businessman and knows our economic situation perfectly." It is hoped that if Hoover had known the political situation at Harvard, he would not have been pleased: the Hoover-for-President Club was found to be padding its membership rolls and placing on it signatures of non-Hoover supporters. Although all of the political clubs were somewhat corrupt, it was found that the Republican Club did more padding than the others...
CAMPAIGNING on a platform of the "full dinner pail," Herbert Hoover won enough friends and influenced enough people to win his way into the White House. Now, thousands of U.S. companies are winning friends and influencing their employees by eliminating the dinner pail. In its place they are supplying something better - corporate restaurants. For the pros and cons of whether a company should assume this new corporate burden, see BUSINESS, Company Meals...
...first White House Autogiro landing was made April 22, 1931, when James Ray stepped out of a Pitcairn to receive the 1930 Collier Trophy from President Hoover. President Taft witnessed the first airplane landing there (by Harry Atwood...