Word: hooverian
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...awful fix," Speechwriter Rosenman told the would-be President. Roosevelt assigned Rosenman to recruit the idea men who were to become known as the Brains Trust, notably Columbia Professors Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell and Adolf A. Berle. But the Democratic platform of 1932 committed Roosevelt to Hooverian solutions: a balanced budget and a 25% cut in Government spending...
...first time in almost 50 years in gaining political control of the FBI. Had Nixon selected a strong, less politically active permanent director-such as Supreme Court Justice Byron White or the Army Chief of Staff, General William Westmoreland-the new man might have preserved a measure of Hooverian independence. But by settling on a temporary director who has such close personal ties to the President, Nixon opened the way, in theory at least, for remote-control direction of the FBI by the White House...
Although long a favorite of Hoover's, Sullivan quarreled with his boss a decade ago over his non-Hooverian contention that the Ku Klux Klan represented a greater threat than the U.S. Communist Party. Since 1967, they have been at odds about espionage restrictions, ordered by Hoover, that severely limited FBI investigations of spies. Alarmed at rising criticism of such practices, Hoover curtailed the use of wiretaps and electronic eavesdropping in espionage cases. He also banned what intelligence called "surreptitious entry"-meaning burglary -and a companion tactic, the "bag job," in which agents enter a home or office...
...year or more. It was evident that Hoover, long a master of federal bureaucracy, had managed to swing the Administration back to his side. The Justice Department did one thing for Sullivan. Asked about the FBI announcement that he had retired voluntarily, a department official replied: "That was a Hooverian lie." It was little comfort to Sullivan, who reluctantly gave up his long fight on Oct. 6 and resigned...
...Chicago this week the Republican National Committee will ponder and decide between the Hooverian and Landonian plans of campaign. Last week a United Press poll of committee members showed 32 in favor of the Hoover plan, 18 noncommittal, one opposed...