Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, Donovan's reputation for disregarding budgets, organization tables and other bureaucratic niceties won him no friends. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and General George Strong, head of military intelligence, labored to eliminate the oss as a threat to their own intelligence functions. After the war, President Harry Truman pointedly chose not to name Donovan head of the OSS's successor, the Central Intelligence Agency...
...much the same uplift have people always foraged for the small, personal glimmers in the lives of the powerful. Several U.S. Presidents endeared themselves to the public through their pastimes: Ike's golf, Kennedy's touch football, Truman's piano playing. Hoover took to fishing and throwing a medicine ball, though not at the same time. Nixon had no hobbies to speak of, unless one counts the knotting of one's ties. The most interesting pastimes were those of Calvin Coolidge, who reportedly took pleasure in the mechanical horse and pitching hay. The former probably delimited...
...something that is really a personal experience, and this is true for many in my generation. After the war, when I was a student of about 16 or 17, when we were half starved, it was the Americans who helped us. We have forgotten neither the Hoover assistance nor the CARE parcels...
...Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. At a press conference the witty professor was asked if he were more conservative in his outlook and opinions than his good friend and former faculty colleague Monetarist Milton Friedman, who received the Nobel Prize in 1976 and is now associated with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. The 6-ft. 3-in. Stigler brushed off the question: "I don't know if I'm behind Milton or ahead of him, but he's so short it's easy to look over him." (Friedman...
...shuffle was that the distinctive organ sound overshadowed some very deep rock roots and sensibilities. That acid tongue blighted some very heartfelt emotions and a sophisticated political consciousness Costello understands, as the Clash never will, that political involvement must start on a very personal level, in one's own "Hoover Factory," not in a helter-skelter call for a "White Riot."). Or that grating voice obscured a sincerity hard to find in rock today. But that's what the cliche to which he bound himself--"continued anger," as he recently put it in an interview--did to his talents...