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...John J. Raskob, then Democratic National chairman, in an effort to rebuild the party. A master of the sly phrase and rankling innuendo, he painted the Republicans as inept, as the party of privilege, of the "corporation lawyer" and the rich industrialist. He hung the depression around Hoover's neck and kept it there. He made a mockery of Hoover's optimism and never let the country forget Hoover's theme that prosperity was just around the corner. He never let succeeding G.O.P. candidates forget Hoover's prediction that "grass will grow in the streets...
Last week the dead G.I.s got a living memorial. Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson and a platoon of big names (Herbert Hoover, Jim Farley, General Omar Bradley, Philip Murray, Louella Parsons) began raising $2,000,000 to help rebuild the University of Nijmegen in honor of the 82nd...
...Bell Aircraft Corp., had been flown through the barrier several times in recent weeks at the closely guarded test center at Muroc, Calif. The chief test pilot was 24-year-old Air Force Captain Charles Yaeger, World War II fighter pilot. The other pilots were Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover, civilian flyers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other aircraft had wobbled or plunged out of control (some had disintegrated). The XS-1, launched from the belly...
...indeed an honor. J. Edgar Hoover and Byron Price were offered honorary knighthoods by George VI for their wartime services-Hoover as FBI chief, Price as Director of Censorship. Price could now call himself an Honorary Knight Commander of the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...already been analyzed economically, politically, and militarily by newspapermen, professors, senators, trained observers, and other species of export. The result, as far as the non-expert observer is concerned, has been a collection of conclusive facts diametrically opposed by a collection of equally conclusive facts. Except for the Hoover Library at Stanford, the Research Center will be the only major organization devoted to a discovery, on a coldly academic basis, of the actual nature of modern Russian institutions. Should the project be successful, it may enable, or at least encourage, a return to the realm of enlightened opinion from...