Word: hooverness
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...most faithful patrons of Washington's Aspen Hill Pet Cemetery is J. Edgar Hoover. Cemetery Director S. Alfred Nash discovered that Mr. FBI has seven little graves there -one with a headstone bearing the inscription "In memory of Spec De Bozo. Born July 3, 1922. Died May 24, 1934. Our best friend." Animal graves indicate something about their owners, says Nash: "A man buries his wife because he has to, but he buries his dog because he wants...
They also were careful not to make specific scapegoats of the police or of such figures as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover or Attorney General John Mitchell...
...born incinerators. Thass why glop goes in 'em an' none comes out!!" Pogo has been invaded in recent months by an odd beast, half Great Dane and half hyena, that looks and alliterates like Spiro T. Agnew, by a bulldog that might be taken for J. Edgar Hoover, and by a pipe-smoking, improbable baby eagle that might fool even Martha Mitchell into thinking she had seen John. This trio of animal crackers spends most of its time trying to decipher messages from an unseen chief who chooses to communicate by means of undecipherable paper dolls. "Dashing deep...
...Iowa farmer in his sixties who nominated Henry Wallace at the 1948 Progressive Party convention. ("I knew soon enough though that he was a sell-out"), told the farm workshop about the plight of the small farmers being bought out by agribusiness. "It's almost as bad as the Hoover Depression," he lamented...
...Noam Chomsky, Ward Professor of Linguistics at MIT, filed suit in Federal District Court in Boston yesterday charging that his telephone has been illegally tapped. The suit names Attorney General John N. Mitchell, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the New England Telephone Company as defendants...