Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...honor a truly great man: Herbert Hoover...
...first time in its 59-year history, the National Institute of Social Sciences awarded one man a second gold medal, last week hailed 84-year-old ex-President Herbert Hoover, as it had in 1918, for "distinguished service to humanity."*Cracked a proud, beaming Hoover: "Your presentation after this 40-year interval should be construed by those who come after me as a certificate of the propriety of my conduct when on this earth...
...Wellesley Hills, Mass. 71 Jeffrey, Frank J. '59 T 21 6.1 215 Pawcatuck, Conn. 72 Courtemanche, Robert A. '60 T 19 6.0 215 Methuen, Mass. 73 Hurley, Peter H. '61 G 19 5.11 185 Rumford, R.I. 74 Coffin, Howard A. '61 T 19 6.5 220 Hudson, Ohio 75 Hoover, John S. '61 T 19 6.2 205 Altoona, Pa. 76 Glasheen, John D. '59 T 21 6.1 220 N. Hampton, Mass. 77 McNeish, Peter F. '59 T 21 5.11 210 Pittsburgh, Pa. 78 Lawler, Edward E. '60 T 20 6.3 215 Alexandria, Va. 79 Budrewicz, Thomas...
...Weeks, Lewis Strauss, 62, is a millionaire, but his origins were radically different. Weeks was born to money and status, went to Harvard. Brainy, West Virginia-born Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss (pronounced straws) never went to college, started out as a traveling shoe salesman. As secretary to Food Administrator Herbert Hoover during World War I, Strauss noted with satisfaction last week that as Commerce Secretary he will be serving in a post once held by his onetime boss and longtime friend...
...Republican but stayed a flute player. He used his favorite instrument to relax from a hectic career during which he served seven Presidents-he started as McKinley's Comptroller of the Currency, was Vice President under Coolidge, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's for Hoover, left public life at 67 as director of Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. Once in 1911 he tried his hand at composition-a simple air entitled Melody in A Major. A friend liked it and sold it to a publisher for $100. Wrote Banker Dawes in his diary: "I know...