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...Dallas, where firearm regulations are practically nonexistent (as throughout all of Texas), 72% of all homicides were committed with guns v. 25% in New York City, where the state's tough 55-year-old Sullivan Law requires police permits for the mere possession of handguns. Says J. Edgar Hoover: "Those who claim that the availability of firearms is not a factor in murders in this country are not facing reality...
Though a light rain and jet sky gave the thickly planted court the macabre air of a Hawthorne novel, some 100 persons turned out to mark Herbert Hoover's birthday (Aug. 10, 1874), the annexation of Hawaii (Aug. 12, 1898), and the patenting of the washing machine (Aug. 9, 1910). There was little else to celebrate...
...York and Chicago practically suburbs of each other. It did so with an all-Pullman splendor that offered both fresh-and saltwater baths, barbers and a library. Soprano Nellie Melba, the Armours, the Swifts and Teddy Roosevelt rode the train, and oldtime waiters recall that early-rising Herbert Hoover was invariably first up for breakfast. But in recent years, ordinary coaches had to be added to match the fare ($43) at which jets now fly, in two hours, as against the train's 16-hour...
...jobs?" Russell said. "It is big business corporations that control good jobs." Five of the panels urged that the pending civil rights bill on juries and housing be broadened. Others proposed a federal program to upgrade local police forces. One group voted unanimously for an investigation of J. Edgar Hoover's administration...
...agency's enthusiasm-"the beautiful hysteria of it all," as one aide put it-only honed outsiders' skepticism. Hadn't the nation heard this sort of talk before? Hadn't Herbert Hoover, just a year before the great collapse of 1929, proclaimed: "We shall soon, with the help of God, be within sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation"? In Louisville and Manhattan, bumper stickers and lapel buttons proclaimed: I'M FIGHTING POVERTY. I WORK. Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman complained that the ballyhoo was damaging the U.S. image abroad, averring...