Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former U.S. Presidents took issue with the court. Said Dwight Eisenhower: "I always thought that this nation was essentially a religious one." Herbert Hoover was more outspoken. He called the decision a "disintegration of one of the most sacred of American heritages." Congress, he said, "should at once submit an amendment to the Constitution which establishes the right to religious devotion in all governmental agencies-national, state or local." President Kennedy carefully-and wisely-supported the court's decision-making power, avoided direct comment on the merits of the decision (Eisenhower employed much the same technique in his reaction...
...down, and keep the party lively with "interesting" people. Some honorary-degree recipients have become the equivalent of Supreme Court Justices on the Washington party circuit-distinguished figures with lifetime tenure. Eleanor Roosevelt and Ralph Bunche long ago lost count of their degrees. Herbert Hoover has 85, Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...long overdue end of the longest bull market on record [June 1], there is the sure knowledge that stocks, like the phoenix, will rise again. Meanwhile, there is a strong possibility that a certain currently popular smoothie may prove to be the Democrats' Hoover...
...recalling 1929 and its aftermath. The smashup of 1929, leading to the Great Depression, crushingly ended the rarely interrupted Republican dominance that began with Abraham Lincoln. For a proud Democratic President, it would be hard to imagine a fate more hideous than to become the Democratic version of Herbert Hoover...
...East Berlin or singing Civil War Songs at Fort Dix, New Jersey. We all felt like memories of the underground and our laughter was based very much on a sense of conspiracy. Laughing at McCarthy in those dear gone days was like laughing at God--or worse--J. Edgar Hoover...