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...argued Constitutional cases before the Supreme Court for four decades. One of his most important cases came when the Roosevelt administration retained him to support the constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority. This was only a few years after he served as Assistant to the Attorney General under Hoover from...
...Banks," wrote FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover in a recent warning sent to bankers, "are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money." Hoover urged that, to resist, banks install armed guards, electronic alarms, tear gas and other protective devices. All these cost money, which banks are reluctant to spend, a fact that makes them even more irresistible...
...also devoted much time to government service, both in Washington and in Massachusetts. From 1942 to 1945, he was chairman of the appeals committee of the War Production Board, and in 1936 he served on the President's Committee on Administrative Management, a prototype of the Hoover Committee...
...move personnel and supplies, the Federal Government annually spends $3 billion, or about 5% of its 1954-55 budget. Is the job well done, or is a lot of money being wasted? Last week the Hoover commission's report, based on the findings of its task force on transportation, announced that at least $150 million a year is wasted. Furthermore, the 17-man group, headed by Perry M. Shoemaker, president of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, said that the Government should stop competing with private shippers. Some "horrible'' examples of waste...
...present rate, one out of every twelve children born in the U.S. is destined to spend some part of his life in a mental hospital, Psychiatrist Francis J. Braceland of Hartford, Conn, reported to the Hoover Commission. State mental hospitals have only three-fourths of the attendants they need, half the doctors and one-fourth of the graduate nurses...