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Lipset said last month that he was considering an offer of a joint appointment in social relations and political science at Stanford and as a research associate of the Hoover Institution...
...that time, sources said Lipset had agreed to become a research associate at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace...
...Edgar Hoover. "Well, Hoover performed. He would have fought. That was the point. He would have defied a few people. He would have scared them to death. He has a file on everybody...
Harvard's treatment of the printers shows that its attitudes toward its workers have hardly changed since the Hoover era. Last fall, Harvard offered the printers a 5.9 per cent wage increase for two years--which, at recent rates of inflation, represents a drop of 10 per cent in the purchasing power of the printers' and binders' wages. Most printers earn between $7500 and $9000 before taxes--only 3 out of 31 workers make salaries in the $13,000 range. These are not extravagant wages; the Department of Labor considered that an income of $9500 per year was necessary...
...Herbert Hoover founded the institution in 1919 to house a collection of documents concerning the consequences of World War I. It now functions as a research institution to study social, political, and economic change in this country...