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...wide broom through the nation's military hospitals. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was sure that he could save more than $25 million by closing down five of them and reducing the staff of 13 other military and naval hospitals. He had behind him the documented findings of the Hoover Commission, which were studded with instances where one branch of the service reared up costly hospitals in areas where another service had long wards of empty beds. Who was blocking these reforms? Last week the finger pointed in a surprising direction: at Rear Admiral Joel Thompson Boone, a veteran...
Responsibilities. Calvin Coolidge asked Boone to stay on in the White House, and insisted that he be on hand every morning promptly at 8 o'clock to test the presidential pulse. Herbert Hoover gave him a new title: "Physician to the White House." Worried about Hoover's 194 lbs., Boone invented the "medicine-ball Cabinet." Hoover was reluctant at first: "Nobody would want to get up and come over here and toss a medicine ball with me at 7 o'clock in the morning." But soon there were enough aspiring, perspiring Republicans to form two medicine-ball...
...efficient ship as head of the big naval hospital at Seattle. But he got to sea again in time to represent the medical corps at the surrender ceremony aboard the Missouri. He became a top medical officer in the Defense Department and toured the country as part of the Hoover Commission task force on medical service...
...Center's work, though not commonplace, is not completely, isolated or unique. Columbia University's Russian Center and Stanford's Hoover Memorial Library exchange personnel with Harvard for lectures and conferences. There has also been contact with individuals at Yale and at the Far Eastern Institute of the University of Washington. One foreign group cooperating on the Russian problem is Chatham House (the Institute of International Affairs) in London...
...moments last week, the two nations agreed to embark on the biggest international hydroelectric power project in history. When completed, the power of Niagara Falls, much of it now wasted, will be almost completely harnessed to supply both countries with nearly six times as much energy as huge Hoover Dam generates; none of Niagara's scenic beauty will be spoiled...