Word: hooverness
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...prominent Washington bachelors were vacationing at the Del Charro Hotel in La Jolla, Calif, last week, and a local reporter asked one of them to give his opinion of the other. Said FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in one of his extremely rare personal endorsements: "Senator Joe McCarthy is an exmarine. He was an amateur boxer. He's Irish. Combine those, and you're going to have a vigorous individual who is not going to be pushed around...
...clerking in a lawyer's office; now has a substantial practice in Washington, where he mingles law with lobbying. The other candidate is Connecticut's senior U.S. District Judge Carroll C. Hincks, 63, Republican and Yale Law graduate ('14), appointed to the district court by Herbert Hoover...
...Versailles Conference, Herter served as the hearing aide to Delegate Joseph Clark Grew, who, because of his deafness, was unable to follow the proceedings. After the treaty he wandered over ravaged Europe with Food Commissioner Herbert Hoover, came back a confirmed believer in collective security. In 1921 Hoover became Secretary of Commerce under Warren Harding and brought Herter to Washington as his secretary. But Chris had nothing but contempt for the Harding Administration ("Washington is a dirty kitchen," he wrote later, "where cockroaches abound"), and he began to look around for a way out. The way came when he moved...
...79th birthday, and ready for more work ("Unending public chores seem to have become my privilege in life"), Herbert Hoover talked of his high hopes for the Federal Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch, which he will head. Said he: "[Perhaps] the commission can contribute something to lessen what President Eisenhower has aptly described as our 'staggering economic burdens'. . . strengthen private enterprise, reduce the burdens of taxation, lessen bureaucratic tyranny over our citizens and generally improve the efficiency of our government...
Another notable comment on the Matthews affair came from Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had told him, said Byrd, that the FBI knows of no minister who has been proved to be a Communist agent. To Harry Byrd, at least, this is "convincing evidence" that the Matthews charge was baseless. "If any ministers were engaged in Communist activities, it is a remarkable thing that Mr. Hoover hasn't found one who can be convicted...