Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Major General Frank Ross McCoy, 79, "America's soldier-diplomat," who became a troubleshooter for Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to Hoover; after long illness; in Washington, D.C. West Pointer McCoy emerged from World War I a medal-covered brigadier. As competent in striped pants as in uniform, McCoy roamed the world on diplomatic missions for the White House, helped set up the Cuban and Philippine governments, fed the "starving Armenians" in 1919, ran Nicaraguan elections, wound up his long career in 1949, when he decided that four years on the Far Eastern Commission were "long enough for . . . that...
About the McCarthy issue, which underlay so much of what Adlai Stevenson said, Nixon made no direct comment. But the meeting's whole tone was anti-McCarthy. The Vice President said that the Administration, through Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, are "smashing the Communist conspiracy to bits." When New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey praised Nixon as a Communist fighter "who got results, not just headlines," applause swelled through the ballroom...
...been a graduate student with Lorwin at Cornell. In 1935 they met again in Washington, and Metz lived for a few months as a paid roomer in the Lorwins' apartment. Metz, a onetime researcher for the Republican National Committee (and now on the staff of the Hoover Commission) told the FBI that one evening some "strange-looking people" were leaving the apartment as he entered. Asked about them, Lorwin said there had been a Communist-cell meeting and flashed a red card to prove that he was a party member...
...that two 18th century Spanish monks first found and named the 14,000-ft. mountain with the cross, formed by two great snow-packed crevices. After Jackson's picture made the mountain celebrated, pilgrims and plain tourists came by the thousands. Eventually, just 25 years ago, President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the mountain a national monument. With due ceremony, Colorado last week began to celebrate the monument's 25th anniversary...
...doctored photograph with a doctored letter was accompanied by some even more interesting disclosures. The bogus letter was based upon a 15-page memorandum sent by the FBI to the Army and was marked "confidential." The memo was headed: To Maj. Gen. A. R. Boiling, from John Edgar Hoover, and bore no signature. (The bogus letter was headed "Sir," was signed "Sincerely yours, J. Edgar Hoover, Director" and was marked "Personal and Confidential.") McCarthy testified that he got the letter from an officer in Army intelligence. From the witness stand, McCarthy announced: "I will not under any circumstances reveal...