Word: hebert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amendment was defeated by only a narrow (147 to 125) margin. Shortly after, the House's watchdog Armed Services Investigation Subcommittee fired off 840 questionnaires to 100 leading contractors and 200 individuals, asking whether any business had been "solicited"' by former military men. Said Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who promises a full-scale investigation early next month: "The big names better come to protect themselves. If not, they'll become suspect. If you enlist brains for the sake of brains, there is nothing wrong. But if you enlist names for the sake of contacts, that is wrong...
...Government accused General Motors last July of making $17.4 million in excess profits on a contract to build 599 F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighters (TIME, Aug. 5), G.M. has jittered at the prospect of a court case and possible bad publicity. Last week Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, whose House Armed Services Subcommittee had brought out the original charge, announced that G.M. has moved to settle with the Government. It offered to refund a total of $9,701,458 to the Air Force. Already in the hands of the Air Force is a check...
Captain Jackie Burke Jr., P.G.A. Champ Lionel Hebert, Dow Finsterwald-one after another, the others of the American team took an embarrassing whipping...
...slut was audacious and insolent to the end," remarked Hebert, one of the most ferocious of her enemies, when she was driven to the guillotine in a garbage cart. Minutes later the tumbrel, dripping with blood, carried the body to an unmarked plot of grass, where it was dumped onto the ground, and the severed head of Marie Antoinette placed between the legs. Author Castelot does not deny or defend his Queen's audacity and insolence, nor does he try to cover her multitude of sins. But by the end of his book, it is not the echoes...
...finals Frenchy Hebert and Dow Finsterwald matched stroke for stroke. Striding up to the 34th tee Hebert led by a single hole. Then Finsterwald cracked. By the time he had retrieved a shot from a ditch under a bridge, he was down two, with only two to play. Calmly Young-Timer Hebert matched his opponent's par three on the 35th hole and, winner 2 and 1, walked off with top prize money of $8,000. It was nearly three times as much as he had won all year...