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WHEN Attorney General Brownell and FBI Director Hoover talk about a stepped-up program that will "utterly destroy the Communist Party, U.S.A.," they presumably know exactly what they mean. But a campaign that would "utterly destroy" all persons who have had any formal connection with the Communist Party in this country, however innocent of wrongful action individually, would be quite another matter...
Died. Herbert W. Hoover,* 76, chairman of the board and co-founder with his father of the Hoover Co., which, in 1908 (under the name Electric Suction Sweeper Co.), marketed the first vacuum cleaners, grew into one of the world's largest electrical appliance firms (1953 sales: $51 million); of a heart ailment; in Canton, Ohio...
...Conferred with Attorney General Herbert Brownell and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover on ways to use the new anti-subversive legislation to crush the Communist Party...
...handed, he turned to other newsmen at the press table and said, "Gee, look what I have." Although he insisted that he could not recall who gave it to him, he was dead sure he never let anyone else read it. Instead, he went to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who warned Winchell that if he printed the document the FBI would be obliged to arrest him. About eight or ten days later, Winchell testified, he burned the document and flushed it down a hotel toilet like the good, security-conscious naval officer he is (Lieut. Commander, U.S.N.R...
...urged Government employees to violate the law by turning over to him classified documents, and that he had, in fact, on at least one occasion, received and made use of such information (in the 2¼ page summary Joe tried to pass off as a letter from J. Edgar Hoover). Williams contented himself with checking the ac curacy of the reading...