Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stirrings of Life. Not for a long while has the South been solid in presidential elections. Herbert Hoover (mostly because he was running against Catholic Al Smith) and Dwight Eisenhower gathered big batches of Southern electoral votes. In 1960, even in defeat, Richard Nixon carried Florida, Tennessee and Virginia, as well as Oklahoma and Kentucky on the borders of the South. But in elections for lesser offices, the South with scattered exceptions held firm to its Democratic traditions. The G.O.P. showed stirrings of life in the South in 1952 and 1954. Then it stalled, gaining not a single additional congressional...
...security of our country." New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, who had repeatedly criticized Kennedy for moving too slowly against Cuba, now said that the President's stand "will have the 100% backing of every American regardless of party.'' Declared ex-President Herbert Hoover...
...Conant, Hopkinson dashed off impetuous watercolors for pleasure, but turned a cool New Englander's eye to his investigations of famous men. His first portrait was of the late E. E. Cummings as a baby, and his later works ranged from John D. Rockefeller Jr. to Herbert Hoover and a dour, purse-mouthed Calvin Coolidge, which now hangs in the White House Green Room. Roared Oliver Wendell Holmes, on seeing his own leonine likeness: "That is not I, but perhaps it is just as well that people should think it is. How did the damned little cuss...
...former Ambassador to Russia Llewellyn E. Thompson, 58, stricken with a kidney-stone attack while golfing on the Air Force Academy course near Colorado Springs; and former President Herbert Hoover, 88, still recuperating in a Manhattan hospital after the removal two weeks ago of a tumor in his upper colon that doctors announced last week was cancerous, but of a type that seldom recurs or spreads...
...Show." Medikaiser is based on two fundamental principles enunciated back in 1932 by Physician Ray Lyman Wilbur, who was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior. Doctors practice best in groups, Dr. Wilbur argued, because they can instantly call on each other's special skills. Patients, he was convinced, make the best use of doctors' services when they pay for them in advance. But organized medicine bitterly opposed prepaid group practice for years, and much of the antagonism remains...