Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexico's Patrick Jay Hurley, onetime (1902-07) Indian-fighting cavalryman and much later U.S. Secretary of War (under Herbert Hoover), is a man who can lose battles and still keep on trying to win the war. Three times (1946, 1948, 1952) he has tried to win a seat in the U.S. Senate, and each time he has failed. Last year, after Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez defeated him by only 5,375 votes, Republican Hurley cried fraud, contested the election, got the U.S. Senate to order an investigation. Last week, more than 13 months after the balloting, Pat Hurley...
Eastern Michigan: luncheon Dec. 31 in Detriot with Coach Lloyd Jordan speaking at the Veterans Hospital. Contact David C. Crawford, 20263 Hoover; Minnesota: Dec. 22 cocktail-buffet party before the Harvard-Minnesota hockey game at Minnespolis. Albert L. Haman Ill 1640 Northwestern Bang Bldg.; Nebraska: Dec. 23 Luncheon at the Omaha Club, Omaha. Russell Bowie, Jr., 808 City National Bank Bldg...
...Elizabeth Bentley never saw White," Schlesinger continues, "Her evidence was all hearsay. But Bentley did work directly with Silvermaster, and Ullmann. Since J. Edgar Hoover says everything she says is true, why not indict these...
Schlesinger admits that Truman resorted to "a careless, slothful kind of action to get White out of his hair," but criticizes Brownell and Hoover who "seven years later; on the basis of much better evidence, are failing to take as drastic action as they expected Truman to take...
...when you find an opponent with a wooden leg you force him from side to side, forward and back. You want to tire him. In politics you do much the same thing. The Democrats for twenty years thought they had a man with a wooden leg in Herbert Hoover. Now the Republicans have found their man with a wooden leg: Harry Truman...