Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Versailles Conference, Herter served as the hearing aide to Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, who, because of his deafness, was unable to follow the proceedings. After the treaty he wandered over ravaged Europe with Food Commissioner Herbert Hoover, came back a confirmed believer in collective security. In 1921 Hoover became Secretary of Commerce under Warren Harding and brought Herter to Washington as his secretary. But Chris had nothing but contempt for the Harding Administration ("Washington is a dirty kitchen," he wrote later, "where cockroaches abound"), and he began to look around for a way out. The way came when he moved...
Another notable comment on the Matthews affair came from Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had told him, said Byrd, that the FBI knows of no minister who has been proved to be a Communist agent. To Harry Byrd, at least, this is "convincing evidence" that the Matthews charge was baseless. "If any ministers were engaged in Communist activities, it is a remarkable thing that Mr. Hoover hasn't found one who can be convicted...
...codes. By this means, the U.S. officials read secret instructions from Tokyo, giving maximum and minimum bargaining positions to Japanese delegates to the Washington Disarmament Conference. In consequence. Japan came out of the conference with less than it might have obtained. But in 1929, when he took office as Hoover's Secretary of State, Henry Stimson cut off Black Chamber funds on the ground that "Gentlemen don't read each other's mail." (Ironically, Stimson, as F.D.R.'s Secretary of War, later presided over the development of a cryptanalytic service several hundred times larger than...
...peddlers that there were few tears, even among bureaucrats, at its prospective death. Furthermore, with the economy booming and money plentiful, there was no further need for it. But in its prime, RFC helped write some of the most important chapters in U.S. economic history. Set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932, RFC handled about $50 billion in funds, by the reckoning of its longtime (1932-45) mentor, Texas Banker Jesse Jones. Started with a capital of $500 million borrowed from the Treasury, it has since paid off $400 million of that amount, in addition has earned...
...Some $2.7 billion in RFC money helped finance relief and thousands of public-works projects, including San Francisco's Bay Bridge ($73 million), the power line from Hoover Dam to Los Angeles ($23 million), and New York's Jones Beach State Park...