Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ANIMALS Blaze's Trail Lieut. Herbert Barnett was as happy as a soldier could be. He was back in the U.S. last week after months in the South Pacific. His two dogs, nicely crated and tagged with their No. 1 priorities, were stowed away beside him on the plane. He lounged, watching the good earth below. Somebody said something about "royal pets." The Lieutenant turned. His fellow passengers were glaring at him. What could the matter be? The cold stares slid over him like a glacier...
...policy included the Beveridge Plan for full employment (TIME, Nov. 20), a housing program calling for 750,000 new houses a year for five years. The personality was the conference's dominating president, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 57, brilliant daughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith. A great friend of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Lady Violet said: "As the Tories once sheltered behind the Chamberlain umbrella, they will at the next election try to shelter behind the Churchill tank. . . . I would cut off my right hand for the Prime Minister, but I would rather die than...
...Female), who gives her age as 45, chief attraction of the short-lived Broadway play, A Goose for the Gander (TIME, Feb. 5); and William Mellon Davey, 52, Wall Street yachtsman; she for the fifth time, he for the third; in Union City, N.J. Previous Swanson husbands: Wallace Beery, Herbert Somborn, the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, Michael Farmer...
...Died. Herbert Lee Pratt, 73, grouse-shooting oil multimillionaire, onetime Socony-Vacuum Board Chairman; of a liver ailment; in Manhattan. Beginning his empire-building career in 1895 as a clerk in Standard Oil, he became a U.S. labor-relations pioneer by pushing pensions, insurance, shorter hours for 45,000 Standard employes...
Commander Ryan promptly said that he owned only a small block of stock, that he had nothing to do with running the companies. Another defendant, Herbert H. Vreeland of Manhattan, director of Diamang and Forminiere (also board chairman of Royal Typewriter Co. Inc.), died two days after the charges were filed...