Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total of four wives and two divorces, confided that he could not "implement this task without the help of women." In the rosy Socialist future, he promised, every Indonesian girl of marriageable age will have a husband, a radio and a modern kitchen (thus making a piker of Herbert Hoover, who in 1928 campaigned under the Republican slogan that merely promised U.S. women "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"). Capitalism, Sukarno said disdainfully, is "a man's world"; only under Socialism do women have plenty of time for "companionship, motherhood and love." Under...
Died. Walter F. Brown, 91, lawyer and longtime Republican National Committeeman from Ohio who stumped the state for McKinley in 1891, reached the peak of his political influence as Herbert Hoover's Postmaster General; in Toledo...
...transition from Dwight Eisenhower to John Kennedy was unflawed by the personal and political feudism of the Hoover-Roosevelt and Truman-Eisenhower changeovers. During the span between election and inauguration, members of the Eisenhower Administration, at the President's orders, cooperated fully with Kennedy and his appointees. Eisenhower and Kennedy met face to face for three hours in early December. Last week, the day before the inauguration, they conferred again, then met with Cabinet officers of the old and new Administrations in what a joint communiqué called a "full discussion of the world situation...
Amid all the gaiety, the first flakes of snow were barely noticed. But they kept falling-and falling and falling. By nightfall on inaugural eve, confusion was complete. At least 10,000 cars were stalled and abandoned. Airplanes stacked up over the airport, then flew away; Herbert Hoover, winging up from Miami, had to turn back, never got to the inaugural. It took Pat Nixon 2½ hours to get from her Wesley Heights home to the Senate Office Building, where her husband was holding a farewell party for his staff. Secretary of State Christian Herter got stuck...
...letter from President Woodrow Wilson-a letter that Robinson last saw when he donated it to Stanford as part of an $8,000 collection of 43 historical documents. Robinson promptly called library officials. All the documents were gone, along with another batch of presidential autographs, from Washington to Hoover...