Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Surprise Plug. Anderson, by contrast, rarely pleads for any specific cause, and lambastes almost everybody: Republicans and Democrats, Congressmen and Administration officials, diplomats and business executives, Edward Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover. Some Republicans believe that Democrat Anderson hits harder at them, but that is probably because they currently are in office. Few people except Nader appear in Anderson's column in a favorable light, and some of those who do are surprising. His infrequent pieces on President Nixon have occasionally been sympathetic, and in a 1970 column he gave a plug to the anti-pornography campaign of, believe...
...fortune, Milbank set up the Institute for the Crippled and Disabled after World War I to help train permanently injured veterans and civilians. In 1928 he established the original pilot study of poliomyelitis, which led to formation of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover, Milbank was a large contributor to the Republican Party and served as eastern treasurer for the G.O.P. National Committee during the 1928 and 1932 elections...
Died. Herbert Feis, 78, economist, historian and Government adviser in the Hoover, Roosevelt and Truman Administrations; in Winter Park, Fla. Feis entered the State Department in 1931 as an economist, but his masterwork was a ten-volume history of American foreign policy from 1933 to the 1950s. Though some younger historians questioned the objectivity of a man so close to his topic, Feis' books were widely praised for their richness of detail and incisive presentation. His account of the Potsdam Conference, Between War and Peace, won a Pulitzer Prize...
...announced the slaying of Gangster Vincent ("Mad Dog") Coll six hours before it actually happened. In another, acting as a go-between in the surrender of Murder Inc.'s Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, he picked up the mobster on one street corner and delivered him to J. Edgar Hoover on another...
Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA built or improved enough roads to girdle the globe 24 times, enough bridges to connect New Orleans with Havana, plus 125,110 public buildings, 8,192 parks and 853 airports. The WPA companion agency, the Public Works Administration, gave posterity Hoover Dam, Chicago's sewer system and the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise. In all, the two agencies disbursed $9.8 billion...