Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco last week, Judge Herbert C. Kaufman made it reasonably sure that Alfred Cline would make no more close friends. Charged with nine counts of forgery, the judge ruled that the nine sentences should run consecutively. Maximum time: 126 years...
...Long? Herbert Hoover said last week that this crisis was unique in history because it had "a definite terminal date . . . the arrival of the next harvest." That was probable, but by no means certain. This present crisis could only be met by reducing the stocks of the surplus countries. If 1946 harvests were plentiful or even up to the prewar norm, the world would get through to the 1947 harvest, although at a lower level of subsistence than before the war. (Strange as it seemed, after all the killing, there were 100 million more people in the world...
Last December, at Government request, the British Iron and Steel Federation, had prepared a special report on re-equipment and reorganization of their industry. They had agreed to accept a considerable measure of Government control. Some Ministers, led by cautious House Leader Herbert Morrison, favored this compromise. But socialist planners, like capitalist governments, are susceptible to pressure groups. Nationalization of steel would appeal to the powerful Amalgamated Engineering Union, a key organization in the Labor Party's fight against the infiltration of British Communists; so Labor walked halfheartedly into a highly exposed position...
...triply ripping occasion: 1) the opening of Britain's first big postwar musical, Big Ben; 2) the 125th production by Britain's Flo Ziegfeld, aging (73), arthritic Charles Blake Cochran; 3) a show written by a Member of Parliament-bung-nosed Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, famed as a humorous writer ("A.P.H.") and as a pillar...
...signed A.P.H. with a flourish. If Manchester was any measure, Herbert would have one more bell to his jester's cap when the show opened in London this summer...