Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Lieut. Commander Herbert S. S. Agar, 47, 1934 Pulitzer Prize historian (The People's Choice) and New Dealing editor (Louisville Courier-Journal), for the past two years assistant to U.S. Ambassador John Winant in London; by his second wife, Eleanor Carroll Chilton Agar, 46, Smith-and Oxford-educated socialite-litterateur; after twelve years of marriage (no children); in Palm Beach...
...addition to the chairman, the officers of the new group include Herbert N. Raab '46, now co-chairman of the Political Science Forum, and Henry H. Nattens '47, now secretary of the Post-War Council, as vice-chairmen. Fischer-Galati will serve in an advisory capacity...
...capital buzzed with rumors that Herbert Hoover, famed for his European relief work after World War I, was to be put back in harness, if only as an adviser. Whatever the outcome, Harry Truman's invitation had been as shrewd as it was generous. In one master stroke, he had won the applause of Republicans and had sharply reminded the nation of the immediate necessity of feeding Europe. Even those who had balked at the idea of the U.S. "feeding the world" would now give weight to Herbert Hoover's passionate V-E day declaration...
...prospective Prime Minister, the Labor Party picked amiable, colorless Clement Attlee, since a choice between strong-arm trade unionist Ernest Bevin and smart-policy exponent Herbert Morrison might split the Party. Ernest Bevin was tipped as prospective Foreign Secretary. Promptly he expounded Labor's foreign policy...
April 30: "Governor Herbert O'Conor of Maryland is mentioned for the Attorney Generalship...