Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advantage of the worst Republican Vice President in years," blathers Frank Jeter Jr. in your Sept. 10 Letters column. As a college senior with a profound interest in political science, I want to know just precisely what Jeter Jr. believes is so completely nix about Nixon? Exclusive of Hoover, Truman and Eisenhower, I doubt if anyone in this entire nation knows more about the complex functions of the Federal Government than our young V.P. He has had more solid experience in the past four years, more grass-roots on-the-job training for the presidency than any other...
...enlightening article by Murray Kempton reprinted in your Sept. 3 "Judgments & Prophecies" says that Nixon ". . . had on a suit of shoddy which only the most expensive tailor could have cut to fit so badly." He "turned once to wave to Herbert Hoover to establish the true pedigree." (Which proves what? Guilt by association? And if so, guilty of what? Pro-Americanism?) Nixon "always did give the effect of having a great wad of unmelting butter stuffed next to his lower jawbone." Try to get your teeth into those facts! Perhaps it is only coincidence that this attack...
Over the Shoulder. The Republicans heard the sounds of the past. Rough-hewn Joe Martin looked over his political shoulder and spoke of "the past that despoiled our heritage with the indelible stains of corruption and Communism." Patriarch Herbert Hoover, erect and unbowed at 82, touched off one of the convention's most heartfelt demonstrations, thanked the old friends who had stood up for him through thick and thin ("And some of those years where they stood up were pretty thin"), traced the development of man's freedoms from Greece and Rome to Runnymede to Philadelphia...
...cold-shouldering Harold Stassen; Keynoter Langlie imitating Keynoter Frank ("How long, O how long?") Clement; the Eisenhowers and Nixons grouped together beneath the rostrum; Ike's proud-grandpa chuckle when beamish Len Hall made eight-year-old David Eisenhower honorary convention chairman; Joe Martin steadying old (82) Herbert Hoover with a thoughtful touch of the elbow; the fixed, pasty smile on the face of Harold Stassen; the sheer spectacle of thousands of balloons cascading overhead as bells, sirens, organ and band music clashed with the crowd's roar...
...technical failures ran neck and neck with human errors. NBC's Chet Huntley. caught with his mike open, was overheard asking for a cup of coffee, later introduced Herbert Hoover Jr. as "Hoobert Hover"; Daly referred to "the late Senator John Sherman Cooper" (who later rose to address the convention); Elmer Peterson (NBC) reported: "Now the President's plane is landing at Los Angeles' International Airport...