Word: hooverized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Janson: President of H.Y.R.C., Republican Open Forum, U.N. Council, Harvard Committee for the Hoover Report. Frank S. Jones: Manager of Football, P.B.H. Social Service Committee...
...usually under the pen name of John August) and gets his prejudices off his chest, with none of the historian's usual judicial balance, in Harper's Magazine. A few weeks ago, in Harper's, he proposed a public campaign of passive rebellion against J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Last week G-Man Hoover disposed of DeVoto with a passing blow ("I do not care to dignify Mr. DeVoto's compilation of half truths, inaccuracies, distortions, and misstatements") and swung on the editors. In a letter to them, published in the current Harper's, he asked...
...editors replied "To each and all of Mr. Hoover's questions we would of course answer 'no' . . ." The difficulty was, they said, that FBI information was often irresponsibly used by congressional committees. This, they added meekly, was "through no fault of Mr. Hoover's or of his Bureau's, so far as we know...
...later years, Hoover and Coolidge both employed ghostly assistance. And in his campaign speeches, Warren Harding had the help of a rising young ghost, Arthur Vandenberg, then editor of the Grand Rapids Herald. Today, Michigan's Senator Vandenberg is one of the few who fashion their own rolling periods unaided...