Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dignified judge. no kin to New York's redheaded, magisterial Racing Commissioner Herbert Bayard Swope. *In 1933 Mr. Chandler, thinking his mother dead, found her in Florida alive, well and remarried, took her to Kentucky to see her grand-children...
...maintaining purchasing power. Most enthusiastic proponent of this view is tall, alert Clinton Roy Dickinson, president of Printers' Ink Publishing Co., Inc., author of two books and numerous short stories. In 1921 Author Dickinson served as a member of the unemployment conference called by Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, was the lone supporter of the late A. F. of L. President Samuel Gompers in a minority report opposing wage reductions. Publisher Dickinson believes he would not be alone today...
Transradio President Herbert Samuel Moore, 33, had reason to be pleased. Four years ago, former U. P. Correspondent Moore found himself jobless when Columbia Broadcasting System abandoned its news service to join National Broadcasting Co. in the Press-Radio Agreement which limited news broadcasts to twice-daily, five-minute summaries supplied by Associated Press, United Press and Inter national News Service. Moore, deciding to buck this restriction, got financial backing, started Transradio as an independent service with no publishing or broadcasting affiliations. "We are fighting for freedom of the press of the air," he announced...
When Eula Herbert of Chacahoula, La. was eight years old her mother stopped lengthening her dresses. At 14, Eula was still the same size: height not quite four feet, weight 52 pounds. Then the Associated Catholic Charities sent the shy little dwarf to New Orleans Charity Hospital, where for two years she took large dally doses of the growth-stimulating hormones, thyroid and pituitary extract. Quick as a cornstalk Eula shot up. Last week she reached 59 inches, 92 pounds. Doctors thought they could boost her up another few inches but healthy Eula was content. Said she proudly, if incorrectly...
...laid before ICC at Birmingham to prove that Southern industries suffer from the disparities in rates. At the Buffalo hearings, which began fortnight ago, Bibb Graves was on hand to publicize the South's position but not to testify. That privilege was reserved for the North, and Governor Herbert Lehman of New York promptly took advantage of it to claim that the South has gained substantially more than it has suffered. Said...