Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt did little to resolve this emotional dilemma for his fellow citizens-even for Herbert Hoover. In the same speech the ex-President paid an astonishing if ambiguous tribute to his successor...
...Hoover's spectacular weekend pounce, 32 men & women were in jail. Among the captives, who looked like characters out of a Hitchcock thriller, were: a draftsman who had for several years inspected the Army's secret Norden bombsight; an engineer for the Sperry Gyroscope Co., which makes the bombsight and other vital instruments of war; a steward on a Pan American Clipper; a woman sculptress and playwright; a tool and die maker; Axel, the brother of Bund-ster James Wheeler-Hill; 63-year-old Frederick Joubert Duquesne, writer, lecturer and shadowy figure of World War I, said...
...other parts of New York City and neighboring towns, other men & women, some of whom had been Herr Eichenlaub's customers, also suddenly disappeared. Their whereabouts was not a mystery long. They were in the clutches of the FBI. According to chief G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, they were spies-every jack & Jill...
...much of the Hoover collection was secured by timely salvage operations and from official sources that most of it was free. Partly financed through Stanford University, it is endowed with a $500,000 fund and several special gifts. The building, for which $600,000 was raised, is "supposedly earthquake-proof." The seven floors of stacks in the library tower (a reproduction of the cathedral tower at Salamanca) get no sunlight but are strongly and uniformly illuminated by prismatic globes, to the wonder of Engineer Hoover...
...section of the Library fills him with a wonder that is more Dantesque-the propaganda section. It contains, he says, "probably more lies, half-truths and untruths" than any other similar room in the world. What deeply troubles Herbert Hoover, who knows in a personal way something of the vicious effects of lies, is the inability of propaganda-poisoned people any longer to know when they are being poisoned. He sees in the Library's propaganda section evidence on a vast scale of "the mind's total abdication from truth." If he is right, the Library may prove...