Word: hooverness
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...files had been "raped," he cried. Tydings had the FBI send over a copy of all investigative reports it had; two security officers checked, and found everything there. But Tydings carelessly announced that the FBI had checked the files. McCarthy promptly got a letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover saying that the FBI itself had not made the check. Tydings then had the FBI check in person. But Joe insisted that, by the time the FBI got there, the damning papers had been sneaked back...
...MEMOIRS OF HERBERT HOOVER...
...city's blotched and gritty drabness. In the deep rows of private boxes, maintained by Manhattan firms for the pleasure of their customers, and in the special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
This code is in force again in Washington. It was absent-or nearly absent-for a long time. After the Harding scandals, the Coolidge and Hoover administrations were as clean as Washington had been for generations. The New Dealers were dedicated men: some were dedicated to ideas, some to their magnetic leader and some to the personal acquisition of power. They were not boodlers, grafters or dealers in personal "influence" in the old machine sense. To most of them, a job applicant recommended by a political boss had two strikes on him. They had a contemptuous name for politicians: pols...
...CRIMSON survey made a year ago showed that universities all over the country were losing on sports unless they were biggest big time. Of course Harvard has been losing far more than any of the others and this indicates that Tom Bolles would be well advised to apply Hoover Commission tactics to his vast domain...