Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blooded Socialism. Hoiles, reports one Texas merchant after a long diet of the local Hoiles paper, is "against every damned thing on earth." In his papers, he has attacked Herbert Hoover and the National Association of Manufacturers as too leftwing, called all taxes "the theft of wages." argued that fire departments, public libraries, highways, and even the armed forces ought to be maintained strictly by voluntary contributions. His most splenetic outbursts are reserved for the public school system. When teachers try to argue with him, he snaps, "How can an inmate of a house of prostitution discuss chastity...
...Pentagon safe. And now here it was on the front pages. "This has happened to me 15 or 20 times in the last 26 months." rumbled McNamara. "I became so upset about the situation that on several occasions I have discussed it with the Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover...
Schizophrenia. The Agriculture Department defies tight administration. A report of the Hoover Commission on government reorganization called it "a loose confederation of independent agencies." The department's two main buildings in Washington contain a total of 4,844 rooms, eight miles of corridors. While Benson was Secretary, a counterfeiters' nest, complete with press and plates for printing bogus money, was discovered in one of the department's rooms. A sort of schizophrenia pervades the whole Agriculture Department atmosphere. Much of the department's funds and energies goes into trying to cope with overproduction-but agriculture also...
Sullivan said that the FBI does not resent criticism and does not "persecute men who advocate the same point of view as Communists for good reasons." He emphasized FBI Director Hoover's tolerance and "faith in our system...
...encyclopedia tells us that Lake Mead, behind Hoover Dam, is the largest man-made lake in the world, but we know perfectly well that when we trudge to Humanities 119 tomorrow morning, we will have to ford a much more forbidding body of water--the Abraham Lincoln Square Lake, which forms at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Broadway whenever Cambridge is visited by a heavy snow. This inland sea (one of several in the area: the Freedom Square Ice Floe is almost as impressive) is every bit as man-made as the one in Arizona-Nevada, for it results...