Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herbert Hoover Jr., Under Secretary of State LL.D...
BEFORE he left for the Middle East, Eugene R. Black, president of the World Bank, was late for a Saturday golfing date in Washington. Apologizing to the other members of his foursome-Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. and U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia George Wadsworth-he explained: "I was being interviewed all morning by George Bookman for a TIME cover story...
...Herbert Hoover Jr., Under Secretary of State Eng.D...
...season rolled on as the football team beat Lehigh, 39 to 0. Hoover won and racoon coats went up to a "preposterous" $600. Then on Friday, Nov. 9, Edward S. Harkness '97 gave three million dollars to the college, which President Lowell said would be used to build two new houses for upperclassmen. The reason--"to develop the unique culture of the individual." The college waited and wondered. The football season was a success as Dave Guarnaccia '29 and French led the Crimson to a 17-0 victory over Yale...
Political Career: At 18, in 1928, headed the Kansas State College Republican organization for Herbert Hoover, rose through the Young Republican organization to become state chairman, later campaign secretary for Kansas' Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon. Moved from Kansas to Nebraska in 1937 to take over the Hastings Tribune (and subsequently to control, with his brother Richard, seven other dailies and two weeklies in Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota and Wyoming and the semimonthly Western Farm Life magazine in Denver, plus three radio stations in Nebraska and Kansas). Elected to Nebraska's Unicameral Legislature for two terms...