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...Passed a bill to deny Red-led labor unions the NLRB's protection of their collective-bargaining rights. ¶Voted 85-0 to tack onto the Red-led union bill a rider designed to "outlaw" the Communist Party, a proposition opposed by Attorney General Brownell and FBI Director Hoover on the ground that it would drive Communists underground. This surprise move was sprung by Wayne Morse and two Democrats, Minnesota's Humphrey and Massachusetts' Kennedy, as a partisan response to McCarthyite charges that Democrats are soft on Communism. Michigan's Homer Ferguson pointed out that...
...miles the Colorado cuts across the West, drains 246,000 square miles and-thanks to reclamation projects like Hoover Dam-makes faucets flow and deserts flower. The Interior Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...
Smiling mistily, Herbert Clark Hoover rode into West Branch at the head of a long motor caravan, finally wound up the ceremonial schedule amid the bunting of Hoover Park, hard by the three-room frame house where he was born Aug. 10, 1874. At speechmaking time, he was eulogized by Iowa's Governor William Beardsley and Illinois' Governor William Stratton, awarded his 80th honorary degree (Doctor of Laws from the State University of Iowa), and praised in a letter from President Eisenhower ("I look anew, and with ever-increasing admiration, upon your distinguished career"). Then Herbert Hoover stood...
Biggest fish in the Colorado haul was New York City-born Arthur Bary, 42 (real name: Diamantis Daramparis), who was carrying $1,872.67 in cash when he was seized. J. Edgar Hoover described Bary as "one of the party's outstanding West Coast underground leaders." Bary had won quite an unusual job from the party; his job was to find out how the FBI was able to plant informers and otherwise collect information on underground Reds. He was, apparently, so maladroit at this task that he could not even foresee or forestall his own arrest...
...Hoover Jr., found a happy solution. Last week's pact in effect recognizes the transfer of full title of the British-built billiondollar industry to the Iranian government, at a cost to Iran that is a fraction of its real value. This should mollify Iranian nationalists. For giant Abadan, the world's largest refinery, and its huge network of affiliated production facilities, the Iranians will pay Anglo-Iranian a mere $70 million in compensation...