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...same soul-searching spirit, Dwight Eisenhower decided to get a new fever chart and some suggested therapy for the Federal Government. To do the job he called in an expert diagnostician last week, and revived the old Hoover Commission on government reorganization. Summoned to Washington once more, Old Diagnostician Herbert Hoover, 78, was willing, if-not pleased. "I took this job against my better judgment," he told reporters. "I'm back here from the Bohemian Grove [a private camp in California], where I was having a good time." To assist Hoover on' the twelve-man commission, the President...
...codes. By this means, the U.S. officials read secret instructions from Tokyo, giving maximum and minimum bargaining positions to Japanese delegates to the Washington Disarmament Conference. In consequence. Japan came out of the conference with less than it might have obtained. But in 1929, when he took office as Hoover's Secretary of State, Henry Stimson cut off Black Chamber funds on the ground that "Gentlemen don't read each other's mail." (Ironically, Stimson, as F.D.R.'s Secretary of War, later presided over the development of a cryptanalytic service several hundred times larger than...
...peddlers that there were few tears, even among bureaucrats, at its prospective death. Furthermore, with the economy booming and money plentiful, there was no further need for it. But in its prime, RFC helped write some of the most important chapters in U.S. economic history. Set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932, RFC handled about $50 billion in funds, by the reckoning of its longtime (1932-45) mentor, Texas Banker Jesse Jones. Started with a capital of $500 million borrowed from the Treasury, it has since paid off $400 million of that amount, in addition has earned...
...Some $2.7 billion in RFC money helped finance relief and thousands of public-works projects, including San Francisco's Bay Bridge ($73 million), the power line from Hoover Dam to Los Angeles ($23 million), and New York's Jones Beach State Park...
...Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation: Wilbur App Dexheimer, 52, veteran (25 years) Reclamation Bureau engineer. Dexheimer was an associate engineer on the Hoover Dam project, built airstrips in China during World War II as General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's staff engineer, helped solve postwar dam problems in Australia, Formosa and Mexico. His name was submitted by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay after the White House turned down the nomination of Marvin Nichols, a hydraulics and sewage engineer, and a Texas Democrat. Although he supported Ike in 1952, Nichols also served Harry Truman as nickel adviser to General Services Administrator...