Word: hebert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Administrator Williams promptly put the University on a strict six-months' probation, refrained from blacklisting it entirely only because the University's new board of supervisors and Acting President Hebert appeared to be making an honest effort to clean house...
...have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg confided to an L. S. U. sophomore that he was mighty worried about complaints against him that had been made to Acting President Paul M. Hebert. Thereupon George Heidelberg rode home to his house in Baton Rouge, sent the cabbie to the kitchen to brew him a pot of strong coffee, and pumped a bullet through his head...
...When You're Licked." With Pennsylvania's Reed, Ohio's Fess, Indiana's Robinson, Missouri's Patterson, Connecticut's Walcott, Rhode Island's Hebert, New Jersey's Kean and West Virginia's Hatfield, Old Deal Republicanism had been discarded by the U. S. Even Henry P. Fletcher who, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, had rallied the Tories to their last stand against the New Deal, had only one spark of fire left. Said he: ''When you're licked you're licked...
...zeal for this reform one local Democratic candidate referred to the villagers as "skunkhunters." A cry of rage swept the State. Meetings were held to which the villagers came by thousands leading tame skunks, dressed like back woodsmen, intent on making "skunkhunting" a title of honor. Felix Hebert hoped to be re-elected to the U. S. Senate, not as a Republican, not as a passionate music lover, but as a skunkhunter. Nonetheless Rhode Island turned to a onetime polo player and yachtsman, the present husband of George W. Vanderbilt's widow-Peter Goelet Gerry who served...
Senate. This year he felt certain of getting the Democratic nomination to oppose Senator Felix Hebert-and 1934 looks hopefully Democratic. Last week, however, the distinguished onetime Senator had an unpleasant shock. A person named Goucher (pronounced Gooshay) had announced that he too was going out for the Democratic nomination. Mr. Goucher is also distinguished. His paternal family is of old French stock. His great-grandfather and two great-grand uncles were the founders of Goucher College for Women in Baltimore. He was the 14th in a family of 17 children; his schooling had extended only up to the third...