Word: hoovers
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Only two U.S. Presidents, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, ever made long tours of South America, and both trips yielded great dividends of good will. Hoover made his trip as President-elect, traveling by battleship (much against the wishes of outgoing President Calvin Coolidge, who tried to get him to go in a cruiser, because "it would not cost so much"). His reception in Buenos Aires was so tumultuous that the Argentine President had his tailcoat ripped up the back. Hoover also journeyed into Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, met Bolivian government chiefs on a U.S. warship in the Pacific...
...speak as if all were well with the nation and the world. Eisenhower may get away cheaply in the remaining year of his term, but the issues he has ignored will return to plague his successor, just as the fragile house of Coolidge prosperity crashed down on Herbert Hoover's head...
Broadcasting, said he. needs not merely "a traffic policeman of the ether" to regulate frequencies-about all there is now-but supervision to ensure that broadcasters are motivated by what ex-President Hoover called "something more than naked commercial selfishness." Holders of station licenses, said Rogers, are "trustees for the public," and what he thought of some trustees was made abundantly clear by his review of the quiz scandals...
...world's "most admired" man. The most-for the seventh straight year: Dwight D. Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Next nine in the procession: Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Harry S. Truman, Pope John XXIII, Evangelist Billy Graham, cancer-stricken Jungle Physician Thomas Dooley (TIME, Aug. 31), Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...
Died. Lawrence Richey, 74, onetime journalist, tight-lipped secretary and longtime confidant to President Herbert Hoover, who as a special agent assigned to the U.S. Secret Service suggested that J. Edgar Hoover might make a good Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; while flying home to Washington after his annual Christmas visit to the ex-President in New York...