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...School of Philosophy, became the ninth recipient of the Cardinal Gibbons medal, "for distinguished and meritorious service to the United States of America, the Catholic Church or the Catholic University of America." Though better-known men have won the medal before him, e.g., J. Edgar Hoover, General J. Lawton Collins, the Philippines' Carlos Romulo, the university has never bestowed it with quite the same feeling as in the case of Father Smith. But Father Smith's big night did not end there. In a surprise appearance, the Apostolic Delegate presented him in the name of the Pope...
...Republicans will not get off much easier. It will be said that they are reactionary successors to Herbert Hoover and may lead us into another Great Depression. Proposals for a $.90 minimum wage, more moderate increases in social security, and more limited public housing will be characterized as timid, reactionary, and dictated by big-business interests...
...Democrats," he said, "will be denounced as radical New Dealers who favor an overbearing federal government and creeping socialism.... The Republicans will not get off much easier. It will be said that they are reactionary successors to Herbert Hoover and may lead us into another Great Depression...
There are many interesting facets to the shipment of goods to Communist countries, observed Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. in closed session testimony to the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. "Not the least of the most interesting is the fact, for instance, that the Chinese Nationalists are shipping to the Communist Chinese quite a number of millions of dollars worth of goods every-and I emphasize every-year...
Last week, after Hoover's uncharacteristically strong statement was made public, he was summoned before the committee again, had to admit that the Under Secretary of State had not known what he was talking about. Hoover's State Department knows of no direct trade between Formosa and Red China; Hoover's State Department knows only that some $250,000 worth of Nationalist Chinese exports to British Hong Kong (Chinese medicines, camphor, citronella, etc.) were transshipped during 1955 to the Communists. When U.S. Senators and Chinese Nationalist diplomats expressed consternation, Herbert Hoover politely withdrew. His statement, he said...