Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Herbert C. Hoover, President of the United States from 1929 to 1933, died yesterday morning at the age of 90. He had been in a coma in his Manhattan apartment since Saturday, when he suffered an internal hemorrhage...
Murphy: I know, for instance, Senator Dirksen quite well . . . J. Edgar Hoover, and all the rest...
...politics, it seems, bad times make good slogans. Herbert Hoover's promise of "a chicken in every pot" did not get him re-elected in 1932, but it was a far more ingenious catch phrase than the Republicans' 1944 theme, "Time for a change," or "I like Ike" in 1952. And for all John F. Kennedy's eloquence, no Democratic orator since the Depression has matched Franklin D. Roosevelt's phrasemaking prowess on behalf of "the forgotten man." Lyndon Johnson's vision of "the Great Society" is not only vague, but vieille vague as well...
...Eddie Riclcenbacker, 74. But there were more like Stephen Gregg, 49, who singlehanded cleared a hill of Germans in 1944, then returned to a peacetime job as a New Jersey courtroom supervisor. They seemed delighted to be there - and reluctant to discuss the reasons why. "Hero?" snorted Herbert Hoover Burr, 44, who drove his flaming tank into a German 88-mm.-gun position and destroyed it. "Hell, if I'd been born early enough to fight in the Revolution, I might have been Aaron Burr, not Herb Burr...
...grandson, Yachtsman Charles Francis Adams, was Secretary of the Navy under President Hoover. His great-grandson, the fourth Charles Francis, 54, has been longtime boss of Raytheon (space equipment), two weeks ago was elected chairman of the board...