Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Supreme Court. In July 1966, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall filed a memorandum in an income tax evasion case stating that the FBI had installed a microphone through the wall of a hotel room--in clear disregard for the Silverman decision. Before 1963, the memorandum stated, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover had the authority to order the installation of trespassing eavesdropping equipment "in the interest of internal or national safety...
Overlooked Hazards. The Senate has utterly rejected 19 nominees. In 1866, Congress was so angry with Andrew Johnson that it simply abolished the tenth court seat then in existence rather than approve a Johnson appointee. In 1930 Herbert Hoover overlooked labor opposition to Judge John J. Parker-known as "Yellow Dog" Parker in union circles for a decision upholding so-called yellow-dog labor contracts that barred workers from joining noncompa-ny unions. No nominee has been rejected since Parker, but the hazard is always present...
...also Hoover who learned that the Senate can pressure a President into nominating its man instead of his own. After Holmes resigned in 1932, leaving the court with two New Yorkers and a Jew, Hoover's last choice was Judge Benjamin Cardozo-a New Yorker, a Jew and a Democrat to boot. Cardozo, however, had wide appeal as a reformer, and as the Depression deepened in an election year, Senate leaders indicated to the President that it was possible that no one else would be confirmed. Hoover was forced to name Cardozo-and hear his move lauded...
...capacity to unify all factions and win an election. He would have to be something like the composite superfigure in the 100 Pipers Scotch ads-one with the party loyalty of a Taft, the looks of a Teddy Roosevelt, the tongue of a Lincoln, the humanitarianism of a Hoover, and the probity of an Eisenhower...
...will not be an easy year for liberals. If an excess of affection for privileged people and antique ideas has been the misfortune of the Republican Party, war has been the tragedy of the Democrats. The first World War brought us the long blight of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. The aftermath of World War II brought a Republican Congress including what responsible historians may well consider the most retarded statesmen since King John. The Korean war brought the defeat of Adlai Stevenson, the loss of both houses of Congress and the eight years of Eisenhower and Dulles...