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...Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina), authority on state and federal constitutional law, the only man in this century whose appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate; of a heart attack; in Washington. In 1930, after his nomination to the court by President Hoover, scholarly, genial Judge Parker became the subject of a debate triggered mainly by the American Federation of Labor, because of an opinion he had written sustaining a "yellow-dog" contract (wherein new employees promise their employers in writing that they will not join a union). Parker explained that...
MASTERS OF DECEIT (374 pp.)-J. Edgar Hoover-Holt...
...think the CAB-and, for that matter, all agencies -should confine their hearings wholly to development of facts, call on contesting lawyers only when the facts are in doubt. Says one lawyer: "This would cut down the time of airline hearings from three months to three days." Both the Hoover Commission and the American Bar Association want more drastic changes; they recommend transfer of the agencies' judicial functions to the courts. This would free the agencies to investigate and make decisions, leave the courts to enforce their decisions with injunctions or penalties...
Expressions of confidence, such as made by the President, are faintly reminiscent of Hoover's optimism, which grew progressively stronger as the Great Depression spread westward. Economists more reputable than the President not only claim they will not know the exact causes of the recession until the statistics are all in, but they have almost to the man refrained from predicting the date when the economy will return to normalcy. As Professor Galbraith of Harvard observed recently, "Generals, at least in the past, did not plan campaigns on the assumption that the enemy would conveniently disappear...
...first time, Wernher von Braun's reach for the stars was accepted as more science than science fiction. In the summer of 1954 Von Braun and a dozen other space enthusiasts from the services and industry gathered in the Washington office of Lieut. Commander George Hoover, U.S.N., to talk about launching a satellite. Von Braun proposed to slam a 5-lb. chunk of metal into orbit with the brute force of a souped-up Redstone; the Office of Naval Research kicked in $88,000 for work on an instrumented satellite, and Project Orbiter was born. It was shortlived...