Word: hooverness
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...diplomats of both nations to assist their citizens who have run afoul of the law and have been arrested in their travels. What bothered some Senators-and kept the pact in limbo for more than 21 years -was the fear, amply supported by statements from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, that Soviet officials would use their U.S. consulates as espionage centers...
...Hoover Letters. Hoover's testimony, offered to a House committee in 1965, has been the principal roadblock to ratification. Last week Rusk sought to minimize its impact by citing a letter from the director agreeing that the FBI could handle any increased security problems resulting from the treaty. But Rusk's intent was at least partly vitiated by the grudging tone of Hoover's letter and by a later Hoover letter that South Dakota's Karl Mundt, the treaty's most vocal opponent, brought forth. Though the FBI could take on the increased burden, Hoover...
...Brahmin Republicanism and Irish-dominated Democratic power. Son of artists, grandson of a German immigrant who prospered as an architect, Herter himself briefly studied art and architecture. He happened into diplomacy in 1916 upon hearing of an opening in the Berlin embassy. After the war, he worked for Herbert Hoover's Relief Administration in Europe and the Commerce Department in Washington before going back to Boston to write and lecture in support of internationalism. In 1930, he won his first election to the state legislature-he was never to lose in a total of 13 contests-and served...
...wife, trim in her Lycra stretch bra, kisses him goodbye, leaving only a trace of Revlon lipstick. In his Ford Taunus, or G.M. Opel, fueled with Esso gasoline, he drives to an office equipped with Remington typewriters, ITT telex machines and IBM computers. While his wife runs a Hoover vacuum cleaner, a Singer sewing machine and a Sunbeam iron, he confers with his American advertising agency and stops at a branch of First National City Bank of New York. If he sneezes in the wintry damp, he pulls out a Kleenex. If his boss needles him, he calms down with...
...Hoover, as everybody knows, has never been too forceful an advocate of civil liberties. He has always worried more about apprehending and jailing the culprits. And the Attorneys General under whom he has served should have assumed this and limited his free wheeling activities, even if they have become a minor tradition in America...