Word: herbert
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...President took steps to accept his vast responsibility for the world's food supply. As the Government moved to speed wheat shipments overseas (see BUSINESS), Harry Truman called World War I's famed food expert, former President Herbert Hoover, and a Famine Committee of twelve other prominent citizens* to the White House. Their job: to formulate a program through which the U.S. public could voluntarily practice self-denial as the price of national self-respect...
Perils of Pregnancy. Of his Presidents, Starling cared least for Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover. Toward Franklin Roosevelt his attitude was respectfully correct. He has caught each of his charges in a memorable episode...
When Thomas E. Dewey picked him to be his grand strategist in the 1944 presidential campaign, Herbert Brownell was a political unknown outside New York City and Albany. This week Herb Brownell decided to return to obscurity, and his law practice...
Twelve days after Jimmy Byrnes published what he vowed was Yalta's last secret agreement, New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews got on the trail of what he thought was another one in Rome. He said "an unimpeachable source" had seen the text of a secret agreement by which Roosevelt and Churchill had committed the U.S. and Britain to repatriate by force all those who did not want to return to their former homes in Soviet territory. Matthews wrote...
This week the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews cabled from Rome that the Pope meant to censure not only Russia, but especially Britain and the U.S. for a still-undisclosed section of the Yalta agreement which sanctioned Russian views on repatriation (see INTERNATIONAL...