Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mormon Elder Benson prayed aloud for the health of the President and Secretary Dulles, and for the accomplishment of their mission. Then Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. briefed the Cabinet on developments at Geneva and passed around an "eyes only," top-secret dispatch from the President, outlining his mutual arms-inspection plan. Each member read the message silently, then passed...
...name at least one. I can name at least one. He began his public life as a Foreign Service officer in Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Washington at the behest of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture . . . He held top posts in the Department of Agriculture under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt ... He accepted special wartime assignments under Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Truman. He resigned from federal service to become president of Kansas State College and later became president of Pennsylvania State College-one of the best college executives in the country. The name, if you have any doubt, is Milton...
Howard's career as a crusading journalist was reviewed on tape by ex-President Herbert Hoover. "You have a unique position among crusaders," said Hoover...
...undergraduate himself, he managed to give Haverford some of the happiest years of its life. He raised faculty salaries quadrupled scholarships, more than doubled the endowment to $10 million. He served as vice chairman of the American Friends Service Committee, was adviser to such public groups as the Hoover Commission and UNESCO...
...have responsibility for Government functions cannot be expected to recommend the elimination or shrinking of the functions; the great value of the Hoover report is to appraise these activities with an objectivity that bureaucrats, subsidized businessmen or pressured Congressmen cannot share...