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...world, said Herbert Hoover to 1,800 U.S. editors and publishers in Manhattan, had drunk too deeply of the "mixed drinks" of three ghosts: "the shade of Karl Marx with his socialism, the shade of Mussolini with his dictated economy, the spook of Lord John Maynard Keynes with his . . . perpetual endowment for bureaucrats. And we have contributed an American ideology of giveaway programs. It might be called the New Generosity. It is not yet a ghost...
Died. Frank R. McNinch, 76, member (under President Hoover) and chairman (under President Roosevelt) of the Federal Power Commission, later head of the Federal Communications Commission, longtime foe of bigness in the power industry, the first to administer the "death-sentence clause" which forced the breakup of the big public utilities holding companies; of pneumonia; in Washington...
...will be possible. The first need is a system of "beneficiary repayments," under which the people who gain from water shifts will have to pay the cost. This is the system used by the Bureau of Reclamation, an executive agency, when it builds irrigation ditches for farmers. As the Hoover Commission has proposed, a Review and Coordination Board, independent of direct Congressional control, would determine who paid for projects, and how much...
...Your article "Fighting Doctor" [TIME, March 20] pointedly intimates that I was blocking the reforms sponsored by the Hoover Commission . . . I have always stood for progress and change which is constructive. I do not shun being critical if thereby I am constructive. The record of the Hoover Commission is monumentally constructive in the main and has been a Herculean accomplishment, but it has not been a work in which there is universal agreement for every task-force report or which is supported item by item by its members themselves. If a member of the Commission or any other citizen cannot...
...This Moment..." Just before the subcommittee's cross-examination ended, Chairman Millard Tydings broke in. Three Democrats and one Republican on the committee, Tydings said, had looked at a summary of Lattimore's FBI file prepared by Director J. Edgar Hoover and it was their unanimous opinion that "there was nothing in the file to show you had ever been a Communist or connected in any way with espionage . . . The FBI file puts you completely, up to this moment at least, in the clear...