Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rationing. But Butch LaGuardia, as well as UNRRA, skipped gingerly over the point which retiring UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman had insisted was not only a moral obligation of the U.S. but one sure way to prevent world famine: reinstate U.S. food rationing. LaGuardia was on safe ground; both President Truman and ex-President Hoover, now touring Europe investigating food shortages, were against going back to rationing...
...central mast, from which it is suspended, much like Buckminster Fuller's circular aluminum house (TIME, March 25). It will adjoin the office building Wright designed in 1938, which is held up by columns built like morning-glories. He also built a low-slung modern house for President Herbert F. Johnson Jr., who apparently believes that Wright can do no wrong...
...Love in the Snow," Boston's latest musical romance, draws brazenly on a wide variety of sources, and imitates many more. It runs the gamut from Victor Herbert through Gilbert and Sullivan and Guiseppi Verdi, and ends on a climactic rendition of "Vesti La Giubba." The surprising thing is that the sum total is not chaos, but a lively and tuneful evening's entertainment. Though strongly reminiscent of past musical hits, and in part admitted cribbing, Ralph Benatzky's score is pleasant and melodious. It has to be, to compensate for uninspired lyrics and a book exceeding even the broad...
...service in Britain will be grateful for British Producer-Director Herbert Wilcox's sympathetic understanding-until it becomes white-hot and knee-deep. Yank starts off well, but eventually a plain, ordinary guy from Arizona (well played by Cinemactor Dean Jagger) is hobnobbing with a Duke (Robert Morley), visiting the ducal estate, making eyes at the Duke's granddaughter (Anna Neagle). The girl falls head over heels in love with the Yank sergeant, decides to marry him instead of a suave, handsome British officer (Rex Harrison). The Duke smiles on the match. In the end, only the fortunes...
There is kindly, comfortable Warren Harding telling the newshawks at the Press Club: "It is a good thing I am not a woman. I would always be pregnant. I cannot say no." There is kindly, uncomfortable Herbert Hoover being photographed with three groups of visitors whose identity he asked about. "Morticians," Starling wrote on a card. With a typical fumble of the administration. Hoover was introduced to "five hundred bricklayers." There is Franklin Roosevelt listening to Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre and his White House quartet singing over the radio and then calling the station to offer Mclntyre a fat contract...