Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrat for Hoover. Lawrence, whose column runs in 275 dailies, is a staunch champion of states' rights who has relentlessly criticized the Administration for pushing public-school integration, which he calls "forced association." He has also differed with Eisenhower over fiscal policy, arguing that the Administration's unwillingness to be tough with "labor monopolies" has brought on inflation. A Virginia Democrat (Fairfax County), Lawrence calls himself a "liberal conservative," has voted for every G.O.P. presidential candidate since he supported Hoover in 1932. He is considered a bellwether of the far right, but, while many of his views...
...Senate, adroitly led by Chief Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson (see below), defied tradition by not only refusing to restore House cuts but cutting even deeper. (One surprising victim: J. Edgar Hoover's almost sacrosanct Federal Bureau of Investigation, clipped some $150,000.) And with the Republican leadership sitting back in amused tolerance, Johnson & Co. turned with special glee on the President's pet program for fighting the propaganda war against Communism, the U.S. Information Agency. The Senate not only accepted the House's $38 million cut in USIA's $144 million request (which Ike publicly called...
...office, and the 10-ft.-by-10-ft. cubicle where he retires to write his "Editor's Notebook," Knight is in closer touch with reality than most publishers, and has often irritated his fellow businessmen. He backed Wendell Willkie, mistrusted Tom Dewey, shied away from Herbert Hoover in 1932 because he felt that Hoover "knew very little about the human equation...
...have been hard hit (the Jefferson School in Manhattan recently went out of business after its enrollment dropped to 400 from 14,000 in 1946). The Soble spy case was so handled that it brought confessions, not controversy. Such is the Brownell security record that FBI Director John Edgar Hoover, no man to low-rate the threat of Communism for the sake of pleasing any Attorney General who happens to be his boss, says the Communist Party in the U.S. is now "stunned...
Died. George Rublee, 88, international lawyer, adviser to Presidents Wilson, Coolidge. Hoover and Roosevelt, whose last high-level public service-arranging emigration and resettlement of Jews from Nazi Gerrnany-was frustrated by the outbreak of war; in Manhattan...