Word: hoover
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Effective Manager. As was true of another noted Republican before him, Herbert Hoover, history would have treated Dewey more kindly if he had never run for President. The son of an Owosso, Mich., newspaper publisher, Dewey was educated at the University of Michigan and Columbia University. After winning third place in a national contest as a college baritone, he studied voice in New York City, considered an operatic career (Critic Deems Taylor liked Dewey's voice but said he sang without "enough impulse"). Instead Dewey settled on law and swiftly achieved prominence. A skilled trial lawyer who could wither...
...Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, was the author of another document dated November 4, 1970 which urged the "immediate" and "discreet" investigation of black student groups on college campuses...
...first memo, a December, 1970 directive from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, called for increased surveillance of black student unions and other black groups on campuses. The other memo, entitled "New Left Notes- Philadelphia- Edition One" concerned the travel and fees of student informers...
Garry has stated that his charge of conspiracy on the part of the police is substantiated by a public statement by J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, to the effect that the Black Panthers were the most dangerous ac-tivist group in the United States...
Garry repeatedly cited Hoover's threatening condemnation of the Panthers and stated his belief that the number of Panthers murdered in its wake exceeded even...