Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Massachusetts' ex-Governor Christian Herter, 61, took over as Under Secretary of State from Herbert Hoover Jr., who will stay on at Foggy Bottom as a consultant until Herter's appointment is confirmed by the Senate...
...quiet and unobtrusive was Justice Reed that it took his request for retirement last week, at the age of 72, to win him headlines and a measure of public recognition. A small-town Kentucky lawyer. Reed served Herbert Hoover as counsel for the Federal Farm Board (1929-32) and the RFC (1932-35). As Franklin Roosevelt's Solicitor General (1935-38), he studiously defended such New Deal staples as NRA (he lost the case) and the Wagner-Connery Labor Relations Act (he won) before the Supreme Court. Once, in a rare dramatic moment, he collapsed from exhaustion...
...Hoover Foresees Depression...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--Former President Hoover said today that the current inflation shows signs of a depression "agony" like that which best his own administration...
...appeal for governmental conference, Hoover repeated Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey's recent forecast that big federal budgets, if long continued, will produce "a depression that will curl your hair...