Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ralph Carr, 50, of Colorado, round-faced, popular lawyer, U.S. District Attorney under Herbert Hoover. He had to be drafted...
...Stainhardt, Minister to the Dominican Republic R. Henry Norweb, the State Department's legal adviser, Green H. Hackworth, and its roving, wondrous Assistant Secretary Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.-Secretary Cordell Hull added an ingratiating prize package. To give Latin America its first look at a big Republican since Herbert Hoover's battleship visit of 1928, and to stress national unity, the Secretary named President-reject Alf M. Landon of Topeka, Kans...
This added up to a greater sweep (81 seats in the House, eight in the Senate, eleven Governorships ) than Democrats executed in 1930 when they won 55 new seats in Congress preparatory to turning out Herbert Hoover two years later. It was the greatest Congressional turnover since 1894, when the Democrats lost 116 seats midway of President Cleveland's second term. All this accomplishment left Republicans very definitely a minority party. Their chief triumph was that they were proved not extinct...
...Business Board of the Freshman Red Book takes pleasure in announcing the election of John Massengale, Herbert McMeeking, Peter Dammann, Robert Pittis, Winthrop Carter, Lee Foster, Lawrence Howe and George Varn to the Board...
...First Story of the Whale" is the title of the first production of Harvard's own Lewis Carroll, but more are going to follow, such as "Herbert the Worm" and "Fitnia and Whee." Incidentally, Fitnia and Whee are two creatures, never seen, and they just can't be described...