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...young first lieutenant when he came here after graduation from West Point in 1903; he had fought the little Philippine brown brothers in the Aguinaldo insurrection. He had commanded a U.S. division in combat in World War I; had been Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army under Hoover; had retired. But he felt that our fate and Asia's were intertwined...
Hurley had made his mark as a politician in the Republican convention of 1928 in Houston, where he was one of the floor managers corralling delegates for Herbert Hoover. An Oklahoma corporation lawyer, he got his piece of the traditional share-out of office after a Presidential victory, being named Secretary of War in 1928. Later Franklin Roosevelt, making the war a bipartisan effort, sent Hurley, now accoutered as a major general, to negotiate with Chiang K'ai-shek for both the creation of a coalition government between Communists and Nationalists...
...senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, Hook is emeritus professor of philosophy at New York University...
Athletic Director Dee Kohlemeier of Hoover High School in Glendale, Calif., holds a minority view: "Girls sports are boring. I can watch a gym class for boys that has better skills than a varsity girls basketball team." Officials at New York's Madison Square Garden disagree. After a 1977 women's college basketball doubleheader drew 12,000 fans?who were treated to Montclair State's Carol Blazejouski's 52-point performance ?Garden planners started to work on a women's tournament and similar bookings. Said one official: "We are in business to make a profit. If it helps women...
...carpet bombing" persisted for several months after the December offensive. However, by May 1973, Drew Middleton of the New York Times concluded that the bombing had, in fact, been almost "surgical" in precision. (The source for this information is Robert F. Turner's "Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development" (Hoover Institution, 1975), which should, be added to your list of recommended reading to dispel the myths contained in the other books--myths perpetuated in your article.) Alvin D. Foran...