Word: hooverism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Story. A fast-draw documentary of an upright Hoover man, which manages to click despite a cluttering subplot concerning the domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart...
...Story. A fast-draw documentary of an upright Hoover man, which manages to click despite a cluttering subplot concerning the domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart...
...series of nine books published by Harvard University Press, Vernon and his colleagues will relate the findings of the three-year survey. The first, Anatomy of a Metropolis, by Vernon and Edgar M. Hoover '28, professor of Economics at University of Pittsburgh, was published last Monday...
After exploring the reasons for growing "grey areas" and decreasing population in the nation's old cities, the book examines the causes and results of the general factory "flight to the suburbs." The chief result, according to Vernon and Hoover, is the appearance of suburban slums...
From there, Writer Schiff went on to more innuendo: "I wondered why Hoover had lost his head. Why was he so scared? Drawing upon my knowledge of psychology, I decided he must be afraid that something damaging about his private life would be revealed in the series." But, said she piously, the Post had no intention of doing any such thing. At week's end, after four disorganized, unilluminating episodes, the series had produced nothing more damaging than the fact that the director of the FBI, as a boy, sang soprano in the church choir...