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...several members of this commission had recently held government positions, they required exemptions from the 'conflict of interest' statutes. These statutes, designed to prevent ex-government employees from becoming influence peddlers, forbid men who have left the service within two years from dealing with government agencies. Members of the Hoover Commission, Selective Service, Defense Production and Civil Defense Agencies receive exemptions from the statutes with no trouble. But Senator Pat McCarran, head of Senate Judiciary Committee, refused to exempt the Nimitz Commission. Senator McCarran felt that the Security question is sole property of the Internal Security Subcommittee, headed by Senator...
There are few more conscientious men in the Senate than 71-year-old Alex Smith, and few more knowledgeable on U.S. foreign affairs. A student of Woodrow Wilson's at Princeton, he worked in Herbert Hoover's postwar relief organization in Belgium, Finland and the Balkans after World War I, and has long been a director of the Foreign Policy Association. As a lecturer in international relations and trustee of Princeton's Yenching Foundation, he has watched U.S. Far Eastern policy long and closely...
Marriage Revealed. H. Earl Hoover, 60, Chicago vacuum cleaner magnate; and Miriam Ulbinen, 38, his housekeeper; he for the third time; on Oct. 2, in Denver. Divorced two months ago, Hoover announced that the thought of remarrying occurred to him "on the spur of the moment" while he was on a business trip, and that he called up his housekeeper and asked her to fly to Denver for a wedding...
...came out of all these experiences," Hoover notes, "with one absolute conviction, which was: America, with its skill in organization and the valor of its sons, could win great wars. But it could not make lasting peace. I was convinced we must keep out of Old World wars, lend ourselves to measures preventing war, maintaining peace and healing the wounds of war." There is no reason today, Herbert Hoover implies, to change that judgment...
...Protests or not, the name actually stuck. Mr. Hoover may be glad to learn that he is still on Olympus-and that Hooveria, usually called an asteroid, still circles in the sky, about midway between Jupiter and Mars...