Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Press Club's 50th anniversary dinner at Washington's Shoreham Hotel: Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 73; Mrs. Charles S. Robb, 26, elder daughter of Lyndon Johnson; Teddy and Joan Kennedy; Mrs. James A. Hoisted, 64, only daughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Mrs. Richard T. Brigham (Peggy-Ann Hoover), 44, Herbert's granddaughter. Also Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, Theodore's daughter-and Pat Nixon, who showed up with husband and family...
...nose. "I'm sorry I did that," said the former Governor and U.S. Senator. "I didn't even think." The punch won Happy no votes on the campus, where he is a trustee, but it did draw a commendatory letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...
...late Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, recommended that doctors be encouraged to practice in groups and that the costs of medical care "be placed on a group-payment basis, through the use of insurance, through the use of taxation, or both of these methods." Though Wilbur was Republican President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior and a former president of the American Medical Association, his recommendations were denounced in the Journal of the A.M.A. as "socialism and Communism...
...Rand announced an especially quiet Remington electric typewriter, only to find that secretaries complained that the new model was slow and stiff. In fact, the quiet model was at least as fast and workable. Without the old hum, however, typists had the impression that they were working less briskly. Hoover Co. had the same experience. Their engineers perfected an almost whooshless vacuum cleaner that promised to be a smashing success. But housewives, who associate noise with power, assumed that the new machine would not effectively suck up dirt, and it found a market only in hospitals and nursing homes...
...national results also included several names left out of the Harvard totals. Hubert Humphrey, Lester Maddox, John Mitchell, and J. Edgar Hoover all made the national...