Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still ruddy and erect at 80, Herbert Clark Hoover went up from Washington last week to apartment 31A in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Towers, and packed for a long fishing trip to the California redwood country. He had just finished a 21-month tour of duty as chairman of the second Hoover Commission to study the operations of the U.S. Government. A vice chairman was authorized but never elected-and never needed. Hoover personally recruited each task-force member, supervised the 525-man staff, ran every meeting of the commission and wrote all but two of the reports (Legal...
...high, with a carillon of 25 bells and a relief sculpture of the Senator (see cut). The cost (about $1,000,000) would be financed by public donations, and 63 Senators from both parties joined in sponsoring the enabling bill. Wrote the foundation's chairman, ex-President Herbert Hoover: the Taft monument would commemorate "the simplicity and greatness...
POWER REPORT by a Hoover Commission task force this week will recommend that the U.S. get out of the public power business as soon as possible. The task force, headed by Jones & Laughlin Chairman Ben Moreell, wants the Government to sell off its projects (including TVA and Bonneville), boost rates to the level of private rates, and make those who benefit from irrigation, flood-control and other water-resource projects pay more of the cost. In no future project should the U.S. contribution through loans total more than...
BUDGET-BUREAU reorganization can save the U.S. $4 billion annually, says the Hoover Commission, which says that under current procedures "there is no effective control over expenditures either by the Congress or by the executive branch." The commission recommends that the Budget Bureau apply the accounting and financial methods of U.S. business to its job, wants it to pay more attention to budgeting yearly Government expenditures on a strict cost basis, and less to preparing mere estimates of proposed expenditures...
Peck, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, will speak on "Crisis in the Courts." He is a member of the Hoover Commission's task force on Legal Services and Procedures. Besides these duties, Peck is on the recently established Judicial Conference of New York State...