Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herbert Nash...
...Herbert E. Fleischner...
...Herbert Pell...
...Herbert Jaques...
...Agriculture Secretary Clinton Anderson (who was elected chairman of the meeting) and the delegates faced a confusing wealth of suggestions. Herbert Hoover wanted a temporary U.N. Food Administration to coordinate the world effort after Sept. 1, but "only during the period of food scarcity and agricultural reconstruction from the war." "The world," he said, "must quit charity as a basis for widespread food distribution" after Sept. 1. Fiorello LaGuardia snapped: "It is impossible to take a stop watch and say at a given hour on a given day, 'We are not going to give you any more food...