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...Herbert Hoover (Tues. 10 p.m., ABC). Dedication of William Allen White Memorial at Emporia, Kans...
...Formula. In a statement issued after his arrest, however, FBI Chieftain J. Edgar Hoover charged that Slack, a World War II supervisor at the Holston Ordnance Works at Kingsport, Tenn., had given Harry Gold samples of a secret,' high-powered explosive called RDX-and data on its manufacture. At the same time, the FBI made public the names of two Russian officials accused of directing Harry Gold in his espionage activities. Unfortunately, the FBI added, the two Russians had already left...
...Hoover. 4. Vandenberg. 5. Wallace...
...fine week for getting political hay in. When he wasn't greeting travelers, the President was rewarding old friends. The Congress, having approved 16 of the 21 Hoover reorganization plans sent up to the Hill by the President, had given Harry Truman a chance to do some reshuffling among his bureaucrats. To his closest non-Missouri political crony, ex-Senator Mon C. Wallgren (once national amateur 18.2 balkline billiards champion), the President gave the chairmanship of the Federal Power Commission; he made onetime New York Senator James M. Mead, another old Senate buddy now on the Government payroll, chairman...
Though Republican leaders in Oregon wasted no love on their maverick U.S. Senator Wayne Morse, there was just no stopping him. The only real opposition that turned up against him in last week's primary was a lantern-jawed farmer from Deadwood named David I. Hoover, who had never run for office before. Hoover, an ex-deputy sheriff from Los Angeles, implied that Morse was a Communist or worse, and businessmen, lumbermen, doctors backed Farmer Hoover with wads of cash. But when the returns were in Morse had beaten Hoover by a 2-to-1 vote, and seemed virtually...