Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President since James Buchanan had lived to such a ripe age. It was natural that Herbert Clark Hoover's 75th birthday last week should become something of an occasion. A controversial figure, Herbert Hoover, for many U.S. citizens, was still the symbol of inaction in a great national emergency and thus a symbol of the first Depression. For many others, the elder statesman who, in his 703 had labored long to reorganize sprawling U.S. Government departments, was a living expression of such old-fashioned virtues as simplicity, sanity and thrift. For his birthday, congratulatory messages from Congress, U.S. boys...
When Churchill battled Herbert Morrison over a relatively unimportant issue (whether or not Laborite William Whiteley should be elected to an Assembly vice presidency), the world saw an important spectacle: the political tussles of something very like an international parliament. In the corridor outside the assembly hall, in plain view of all Europe, Churchill grabbed the lapels of Liberal Lord Layton, whom he backed against Whiteley. "If you rat on me now in spite of our 40 years' friendship," hissed Churchill, "I will never speak to you again." Tory delegates patrolled the corridors, lobbying for Layton. Two Danes asked...
Pats & Brickbats. When a motion opposing the President's plan was offered, incoming President C. Herbert Marshall of Washington led the Southern bloc's assault: "If you support a stand against the Truman proposals, you will get a pat on the back from the A.M.A. But you will gain the condemnation of ten million Negroes . . . for denying to many of our people medical opportunities ... It would be wise to create an issue to make the A.M.A. come to you, man to man, rather than to ignore you because you pulled...
...according to his nation's policy. The Consultative Assembly, however, is a revolutionary departure: its 87 members* represent political groups inside their countries (excluding Communists), are supposed to act as Europeans; thus, a Winston Churchill could team up with the champions of capitalist democracy from other countries, a Herbert Morrison with Socialists. But the Consultative Assembly's agenda is controlled by the Committee of Ministers. The limitation was imposed by the British, who believe that union can only be built step by step...
...Herbert Clark Hoover, who has known less amiable Congresses, got a present from Capitol Hill to mark his 75th birthday this week. Both Houses unanimously passed a resolution thanking the former President for his "devoted service to his country and to the world...