Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sinclair Weeks, 63. Secretary of Commerce, has never completely overcome his conservative New England business views. (A portrait of Herbert Hoover occupies the honor spot in his office.) But in four years he has marched much closer to Eisenhower progressivism, especially in the sphere of international trade. He has mellowed towards lower tariffs, fought for U.S. membership in the antiprotectionist Organization for Trade Cooperation. To Weeks goes major credit for fostering U.S. participation in foreign-trade fairs that have combated Communist propaganda and helped raise U.S. exports. He has made such long-needed improvements as a Patent Office speedup, broader...
...alone might degenerate into bitter partisan battle. To break the impasse, Johnson is pushing for a compromise commission of his own, one-third of whose members would be named by President Eisenhower, with the other two-thirds divided between the House and Senate, somewhat along the lines of the Hoover Commission on Organ ization of the Executive Branch of the Government...
...first member newspaper in any territory that asked for it. When the book became a sellout, publishers who had been beaten to the A.P. series went to work to find another one. United Press assigned staffers to put together a six-part series, with a preface by Hoover, on the FBI's top cases, from Al Capone to Brink's. The only major wire service that ignored the story was Hearst's International News Service. When the Philadelphia Bulletin signed up for the A.P. series, the rival Philadelphia Inquirer turned out its own six-part saga, sold...
Competing Sagas. Though Whitehead and the A.P. complained to the Trib, Managing Editor Don Maxwell brushed them off, snapped: "We've covered the FBI as much as anyone. After all, most of the stories in the book were in our morgue, too." While editors scrapped, J. Edgar Hoover happily churned out "exclusive" quotes and prefaces for competing sagas, and let each editor boast that the FBI had "opened its files" wide...
Died. Vice Admiral (ret.) Wilson Brown, 74, U.S.N., naval aide to Presidents Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman, onetime superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1938-41), who led a task force in the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942, won a Distinguished Service Medal; in Groton, Conn...