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...GLENN E. HOOVER...
Louis B. NICHOLS, assistant to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, speaking before a New York City forum of the Anti-Defamation League...
...note with interest one of the "horrible" examples of waste cited by the Hoover Commission in their surveys of transportation expenditures of the Federal Government [April 11]. The air shipments of dog food to Okinawa were to myself. As air police officer of the 546th Ammunition Supply Squadron at Naha air base, I made use of 15 German police dogs that performed guard or sentry duty. These dogs were a major factor in reducing pilferage on the depot. The shipments of dog food arrived at intervals of two to three months and were intended to cover our needs...
...long after the first reports of Chou's statement reached Washington, President Eisenhower was on the telephone from his farm in Gettysburg with Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. (Secretary John Foster Dulles was at his island retreat in Lake Ontario.) By nightfall, the State Department had issued a reply: "The United States always welcomes any efforts, if sincere, to bring peace to the world. In the Formosa region we have an ally in the Free Republic of China and, of course, the United States would insist on Free China participating as an equal in any discussions concerning...
...principle of the item veto has already been accepted as constitutionally sound, for it is being used successfully in Puerto Rico and in thirty-six states. The support of such widely diverging political figures as Senator Byrd, William Douglas, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and Herbert Hoover testifies to the need for a streamlined system...