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...economic report sent to Congress last week, President Eisenhower moved into a large area of political philosophy between Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt.- In contrast to Hoover, Eisenhower accepted Government responsibility for effective methods to keep...
once felt that he and Hoover were not so far apart came to light last week.. In the second volume of his Roosevelt biography (Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Ordeal), Author Frank Freidel reported that Roosevelt wrote Diplomat Hugh Gibson in 1920: "I had some nice talks with Herbert Hoover before he went West for Christmas. He is certainly a wonder, and I wish we could make him President of the U.S. There could not be a better...
Tragic & Dynamic. Columnist Lawrence, who calls himself a "conservative liberal," is a man of deep, if contradictory, convictions. He has backed the Republican presidential candidate every year since he voted for Hoover in 1932 (on the ground that it was "dangerous to change parties in mid-Depression"); yet he is a devout Wilsonian ("Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles were the major philosophical stamp on my thought") and a registered Democrat in Fairfax County, Va., where he lives. He is a lifelong internationalist, a staunch supporter of the League of Nations and the U.N., has backed the Marshall Plan...
Died. Emanuel Hirsch Bloch, 52, longtime attorney for Communist causes, who defended Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, later said in a speech at their funeral: "I place the murder of the Rosenbergs at the door of President Eisenhower, Mr. Brownell and J. Edgar Hoover"; of a coronary occlusion; in-his Manhattan apartment...
...Attorney General merely recited the cold, indisputable facts surrounding Harry Dexter White (Harvard PhD '30),--facts which were verified in full by J. Edgar Hoover as well as by one of Sparkman's own fellow Southern Democrats. If Brownell's truthful account of the White case happens to conjure up in Sparkman's mind the picture of a thief taking even such an innocent item as a poor little chicken, well, then it's just too bad about the honorable gentleman from Alabama...