Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men would presumably be above "Politics." Mature men with mellowed wisdom who could guide the U. S. ably and firmly. At the present time the best abilities of these men are not devoted to the common good to the extent that they could be. Example: Our own good Herbert Hoover...
...Francisco and began writing a financial column for the Chronicle. Then, deciding he needed more education, he borrowed $500 and went to Europe. In January 1933 the financial editor of the Chronicle died and Wonderboy Smith got a cable to come home and take the job. When Herbert Hoover tried to hire him away in 1935, he was made executive editor. In October 1937 he became general manager, with only one boss, Cementman George Cameron, who married the founder's eldest daughter...
...government's outright censure of another's cabinet prospect. But "Winnie" Churchill is a fairly extraordinary personality in anybody's government. A Boer warrior, a British officer who was a newspaper correspondent in Cuba just before the Spanish-American War, an outstanding member of Herbert Asquith's War Cabinet until he organized the catastrophic Gallipoli campaign, Winston Churchill has remained the brightest, most mercurial and (sometimes) most effective member of Parliament...
...imperialist of the Rudyard Kipling school, Winston Churchill's stands on domestic issues have usually been so reactionary that he has never picked up much of a popular following. Herbert Asquith once said he had "genius without judgment." But on the one subject of German aggression, now uppermost in British minds, he has followed such a straight, consistent line that in an emergency Winston Churchill might well become Britain's "Man of the Hour...
Convalescing in a Manhattan hospital from near-fatal peritonitis, popular ex-Fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey was snowed under by more than 2,000 telegrams, visited by Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, roundly bussed by Daughters Barbara and Rose...