Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Edgar Hoover, who almost singlehanded turned a subsidiary department of the U.S. Department of Justice into that internationally famous unit known as the FBI, has long been an enigma within an enigma. His critics have accused him of being a publicity seeker; yet Hoover as a rule will not even pose for a picture unless he has a prepublication look at the story that is to go with it, and in the 40 years that he has headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation, his open-forum press conferences have been as scarce as hens' teeth...
...Edgar Hoover has grandly announced that the Royal Nobel Committee is about to confer its Peace Prize on the "world's most notorious liar." Fortunately no one listens to Mr. Hoover any more. He is old, almost 70, and his intemperate language now sounds more pathetic than frightening. It is sobering, however, to remember how often people have listened, how often this man has been anything but pathetic. Out of either fear or trust, ten administrations have felt obliged to retain...
...Martin Luther King was not yet born, but even then there were enough outspoken Negroes to keep Mr. Hoover busy. That year he assumed directorship of the General Intelligence Division of the Justice Department and promptly reported that "the reds have done a vast amount of evil damage by carrying the doctrine of race revolt and the poison of Bolshevism to the Negroes." To illustrate his case to Congress, Hoover brandished these damming quotes from the contemporary Negro press...
Having proved his point, Hoover concluded by condemning the Negro press generally for "its lack of verse structure and grammar and its insolently offensive and defiant manner." To remedy the situation, he urged immediate passage of a national anti-sedition law. In 1919 people took him seriously, and Congress nearly complied. We have come a long way since then. This January President Johnson can commemorate our progress by "granting" Mr. Hoover a retirement long overdue and fully earned...
...Bernice ("Bunny") Miller joined the secretarial staff of Herbert Hoover "on a temporary basis." Last week, when the will of the former President, who died on Oct. 20 at 90, was filed in Manhattan, she learned that her employer of 25 years had left her a $50,000 trust fund, while five other secretaries inherited from $10,000 to $30,000 apiece. Before his death he had transferred much of his wealth to trust funds set up for his two sons. And to his elder son, Herbert Jr., like his father a successful mining engineer and from...