Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coming up with solutions. When Donahue asked Mrs. Hobby's approval of the crime series, she replied: "It has an aura of the common about it. Cloak it with a mantle of decency." Recalls Donahue: "I started each piece out with a quotation about public service-J. Edgar Hoover or something-then shot the works...
Thank goodness for your April 18 article, "The Defeat of the Happy Warrior." It's about time someone dispelled the popular belief that Governor Smith's Roman Catholicism alone caused his defeat. I agree wholeheartedly that no Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt included, could have won over Hoover. The Republican Party at the time was riding the crest of the prosperity wave which would have swamped any opposition...
Person to Person (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). Charles Collingwood visits Herbert Hoover at the ex-President's cottage on Florida's Key Largo...
...typically strenuous weeks, Herbert Hoover (whose secretary, explaining his pace, can only say: "He doesn't know he's 85") conferred with his old friend, No. 1 G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, who is no kin, about Manhattan's projected Herbert Hoover Building, new national headquarters of Boys' Clubs of America. Both Hoovers are on its national board, Herbert Hoover its chairman for the past 25 years. Day before the meeting, ex-President Hoover popped up by surprise at a lively Stanford University alumni luncheon in Manhattan. Hoover, a member of Stanford's first graduating...
Before the game, Nixon's entourage drove out to the rolling campus of Stanford University (enrollment: 8,760), Herbert Hoover's alma mater in Palo Alto. Dozens trailed after him into the auditorium, where 1,700 jammed the seats and another 1,000 overflowed out on the steps and lawn. The place exploded in cheers as he strode onstage. At the question period he invited barbed ones ("As I said to Khrushchev in Moscow, I've been insulted by experts-so go right ahead"), and got one. Could a man who used innuendoes about political opponents provide...