Word: hoovers
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...politicians and scientists. At 21 Strauss was already rubbing shoulders with them. The son of the vice president of a prosperous shoe company in Richmond, Strauss decided to seek his fortune in Washington in 1917 instead of going to college. He stationed himself outside the hotel room of Herbert Hoover, who had also just come to Washington to head the wartime Food Administration. When Hoover showed up, Strauss brashly asked him for a job. Said Hoover laconically: "Take off your coat...
Salty Man. Strauss became Hoover's private secretary, accompanied him to Europe to help with the food relief pro gram. Strauss provides glimpses of a salty Hoover. "Young man," a British admiral said to Hoover, "I don't see why you American chaps want to feed those bloody Germans." Snapped Hoover: "Old man, we can' t understand why you British chaps want to starve women and children after they are licked...
...state that Cardinal Spellman was "shocked and frightened" by the Supreme Court's decision barring prayers in public schools, that Mr. Eisenhower has "always thought that this nation was essentially a religious one," and that Mr. Hoover called this decision "a disintegration of one of the most sacred of American heritages." It seems to me that we all had a right to expect that these three outstanding Americans should have been mindful that George Washington wrote, "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion" (Article XI, Treaty of Peace...
...President Kennedy the trade expansion bill was vital. It could, he said, "affect the unity of the West, the course of the cold war, and the growth of our nation for a generation or more to come." All the living ex-Presidents-Republicans Hoover and Eisenhower as well as Democrat Truman-came out for its passage. The Committee for a National Trade Policy, a bipartisan business group, strove to convince the nation of the bill's importance...
Textbook Shortage. Until lately, texts have consisted mostly of J. Edgar Hoover's Masters of Deceit, the writings of Marx and Lenin, assorted serious explanations of Communism by authorities, and a range of less scholarly books down to paperbacks with scary titles and bloody hammers and sickles on the covers. Established textbook publishers are now beginning to enter the field with professional treatment. (TIME Inc.'s Silver Burdett will publish The Meaning of Communism this winter...