Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone who the aggressors were or whether the battle need ever have occurred at all. When the President's commission on violence opened hearings in Washington last week, the nation's two top law officers, Attorney General Ramsey Clark and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, were firing from opposing sides...
Clark, of course, is technically Hoover's superior at the Justice Department. But after 44 years in charge of the FBI, Hoover is a law unto himself. For a man with experience in police work, he took an extraordinarily simplistic line about the Chicago cops' performance during the Democratic National Convention. "The police and the National Guard were faced with vicious attacking mobs who gave them no alternative but to use force to prevent these mobs from accomplishing their destructive purposes," Hoover told the commission...
Artful Whitewash. Public opinion, nonetheless, continued overwhelmingly to support Hoover's view, which in turn reflected precisely the thoughts of Chi cago Mayor Richard Daley. The Mayor last week kept up his own counterbarrage to the "distortions" of the news media by broadcasting an hour-long documentary over 150 television sta tions throughout...
...poker-dice games at the bar of the Metropolitan Club. His counsel has been sought-or pointedly ignored-by every President since William Howard Taft. Woodrow Wilson often talked out his problems with him during the Paris peace talks that ended World War I.F.D.R. once regarded him as a "Hoover agent," twice tried unsuccessfully to get him fired. Both Jack and Bobby Kennedy submitted the manuscripts of their first books to him for critical comment. To his secretary, Laura Waltz, his ponderous prose is "notoriously bad." To his former colleagues at the New York Times, he is "Mr. Krock." Says...
...mile stretch (with 45 tunnels) of Western Pacific line through the Sierra Nevada and the Feather River Canyon. In the 1930s, Utah started its all-out expansion. It became one of Six Companies, Inc., a consortium that also included Henry Kaiser and Morrison-Knudsen Co., which bid jointly on Hoover, Bonneville and many another mammoth engineering project in the booming West. The Six Companies have long since separated, but Utah is still heavily involved in construction. It currently has a $102 million backlog of orders ranging from landfill work in San Francisco Bay to tunnel and powerhouse projects...