Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good sense. When the press announced that the Norwalk branch of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was reporting people under suspicion of "subversive" action to the FBI, it seemed for a while that telling tattle on one's neighbor would become the new national rage--despite J. Edgar Hoover's warning that the worst way to fight domestic Communism is for uninformed people to attempt investigations...
...Chief J. Edgar Hoover, in testimony before the House Appropriations Committee made public this week, estimated that in 1953 a serious crime was committed in the U.S. every 14.9 seconds, a new alltime high. Average annual cost of crime for each U.S. family (including prevention, property loss, detection and punishment): $495. Hoover estimated the nation's total crime bill at $20 billion a year, ten times the total given each year to all U.S. churches...
once felt that he and Hoover were not so far apart came to light last week.. In the second volume of his Roosevelt biography (Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal), Author Frank Freidel reported that Roosevelt wrote Diplomat Hugh Gibson in 1920: "I had some nice talks with Herbert Hoover before he went West for Christmas. He is certainly a wonder, and I wish we could make him President of the U.S. There could not be a better...
Tragic & Dynamic. Columnist Lawrence, who calls himself a "conservative liberal," is a man of deep, if contradictory, convictions. He has backed the Republican presidential candidate every year since he voted for Hoover in 1932 (on the ground that it was "dangerous to change parties in mid-Depression"); yet he is a devout Wilsonian ("Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles were the major philosophical stamp on my thought") and a registered Democrat in Fairfax County, Va., where he lives. He is a lifelong internationalist, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations and the U.N., has backed the Marshall Plan...
Died. Emanuel Hirsch Bloch, 52, longtime attorney for Communist causes, who defended Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, later said in a speech at their funeral: "I place the murder of the Rosenbergs at the door of President Eisenhower, Mr. Brownell and J. Edgar Hoover"; of a coronary occlusion; in-his Manhattan apartment...