Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President gave his praise and thanks to the U.S. people, to farmers, millers and bakers, and to Chester Davis' Famine Emergency Committee, which had done much to promote public conservation and aid.* Last week former President Herbert Hoover, who had done as much as any man to spur the U.S. conscience into action, made his final famine relief report in Ottawa (see CANADA). Not mentioned in the official reports was fiery, little Fiorella LaGuardia, head of UNRRA, who had cut through much Government red tape and indecision...
...results were eminently satisfactory. Socialist Gibson, who looks like Eire's Eamon de Valera, won with 3,105 votes. Liberal Herbert Wiebe trailed him with 2,406 votes. Progressive-Conservative Rupert Ramsay with...
...Ottawa's Chateau Laurier, the only living ex-President of the U.S. sat down to a butterless, breadless, sugarless, cream-less, potatoless, meatless dinner. (He ate cold salmon, vegetables, fruit.) Then he rose before a microphone to talk about food. At President Truman's request, Herbert Hoover had travelled 50,000 miles through 38 countries. Few men except the starving themselves knew so much about food-and famine...
Irrepressible House of Commons Leader Herbert Morrison, wearing an enormous pink rose in bis lapel, best expressed the jubilant, confident mood of the conference. His somber warnings of a future U.S. business slump that might drag the world into depression did not keep him from enjoying the social whirl. He danced the Scottish reel with whoops and jigs, nursed a couple of small Scotches through evenings of gay chatter. "A regular scalawag is Herbert," grinned one delegate...
Gangling, soft-spoken Clifford Durr believes that Herbert Hoover had the right idea: "The ether is a public medium, and its use must be for public benefit. The use of radio channels is justified only if there is a public benefit...