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...striking example showed up baldly in the "major issue" of the campaign. Still riding the ghost of the "Hoover Depression," Democrats have made much of unemployment in the U.S. in 1954. It is an economic fact that the Eisenhower Administration has been more successful than the Roosevelt or Truman Administrations ever were in maintaining, without controls, a high level of employment and steadying the U.S. economy in time of peace. But it is a political fact that the Republican Party is not getting much if any credit for this achievement...
...year ago his sister was hospitalized with a severe nervous disorder. When her illness was acute, she said she was concerned because she once belonged to a left-wing study club. Case did everything he could to check her disconnected story, even asked the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover for help. Finally, Case concluded there was nothing to the story. Now recovered from her illness, Adelaide recalls "that she met with a small group of people . . . several times a month to discuss political issues of the -wartime period. There is nothing that she told me to suggest that this...
...they were killed this year "by a solid Democratic vote in the Senate." The delegates cheered the 18-minute speech, gave Ike a standing ovation at the end. He was the third President to come personally before the A.F.L. in its 73 years (the other two: Wilson in 1917, Hoover in 1930), and afterward even Meany noted "a lot of nice things" about the Eisenhower Administration. Obviously, the A.F.L.'s condemnation was neither unanimous nor strongly felt...
...University of California graduate, Steve Bechtel started working summers in his father's construction firm. In 1931 the firm teamed up with other construction outfits to form the famed Six Companies that built Hoover Dam. After his father died in 1933, Steve Bechtel started branching out into a new construction field. He began laying pipelines, soon spotted the profits to be had from building power plants and oil refineries to keep pace with mushrooming demand. All a company had to do was tell Bechtel what it wanted and he would design and build...
...President Herbert Hoover...