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...Lyman Wilbur, who was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior and headed a similar presidential commission on health costs...
...board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting this month, sees news, sports and, at times, movies and specials. Physicist William Pickering, whose Jet Propulsion Laboratory has directed U.S. unmanned space probes from Explorer 1 to Surveyor 6, likes a preposterous piece of space fiction, Star Trek. J. Edgar Hoover is strictly business: No. 1 on his most wanted list is The F.B.I...
Returning to Harvard after a brief service in the diplomatic corps, he taught history until his death in 1928. During the war years, he went on official missions to Archangel and Vienna, served with the Peace Conference at Versailles, and with the Hoover famine-relief expedition in Russia...
...astounding things: "that the United States (is) a nation in which leftist values predominate"; that "the values of liberty and equality became institutionalized within America to a greater extent than in other nations"; that "the values of socialism and Americanism are similar"; and that, economic systems apart, Herbert Hoover, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller "advocated the same set of social relations among men" as Marx, Engels, and Lenin...
...cloth to conceal their identity. As military policemen filled four olive-drab flamethrowers with tear gas, a dollop of the reeking riot queller spilled and gas masks were donned until it cleared. The troops were the first committed in metropolitan Washington for crowd-control duty since 1932, when Herbert Hoover called in 1,000 cavalry and infantrymen under Douglas MacArthur to put down the Bonus March...