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Word: hoovers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cleaver said that Dohrn's successful flight from the United States, where the FBI has sought her for the past ten months, was "a blow to American imperialism" which "exposes" J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI "as the paper tigers they are" He added that Dohrn and Leary would give the details of their escapes at a joint press conference today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bernadine Flees U.S. to Algeria | 10/22/1970 | See Source »

...most distinctive qualities is her relish for a good fight. A conservative with such influential friends as J. Edgar Hoover and Arkansas' Senator John McClellan, Frances Knight has left in her wake a trail of smoking Congressmen and State Department administrators. They call her the "ogress," and it has been suggested that she used to leak State Department information to Senator Joe McCarthy-a charge she firmly denies. In her most celebrated battle, she faced down Abba Schwartz, the liberal head of the State Department's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, in an effort to ease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Clash by Knight | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...Lindbergh of these journals is a man so sensitive and perceptive that he studies with understanding the eyes of caged animals in a zoo, and yet so insensitive and unperceiving that he fails to grasp that there was anything wrong in openly baiting American Jews. Herbert Hoover shared Lindbergh's view that the Roosevelt Administration, Jews and Anglophiles were deliberately leading the nation toward World War II. But when he chided Lindbergh in 1941 for saying so publicly Lindbergh was uncomprehending. He still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lindbergh Heart | 10/19/1970 | See Source »

...director J. Edgar Hoover announced that Davis was taken into custody in a New York motel early last evening...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Angela Davis Arrested in N. Y.; Was On Ten Most Wanted List | 10/14/1970 | See Source »

...putting theory into practice would limit his academic freedom-annoyed members of the Corporation since he was not under consideration. Several candidates have been considered but rejected because of their age: Prince Charles as too young, General De Gaulle and Pope Paul as too old, and J. Edgar Hoover as immortal. Referring to Hoover's statement that if appointed he would continue to serve in his Washington post as well since "What's good for Harvard is good for the FBI," members of the Corporation have emphatically denied that possible conflict of interest was a negative factor in his case...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau], | Title: The Mail THE PRESIDENCY | 10/9/1970 | See Source »

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