Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Indian Territory, Pat Hurley began work at eleven as mule boy in a coal mine. Oil and a dash of the law made him wealthy. After four years as Herbert Hoover's Secretary of War, he dabbled in Washington lobbying, became as outspoken an anti-New Dealer as any ex-officeholder. But Franklin Roosevelt tapped him early in World War II for a wide variety of ticklish diplomatic junkets. They have carried him at least three times across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, and into six continents-to Moscow, Canberra, Cairo, Kabul, Natal and points between...
...Jack Kilpatrick, columnist for the Richmond News Leader: "The Saturday night crowds at Sixth and Grace look about the way they used to. The Hotel Jefferson is just about back in commission after that disastrous fire. . . . William C. Herbert succeeded Gordon Ambler as mayor...
...Mayor Herbert: "I feel we can find jobs for all ... returning war veterans...
Upset. Perhaps the Senate's biggest upset was the defeat of Pennsylvania's gladhanding, snow-crested "Puddler Jim" Davis, 71, member of the Moose, Secretary of Labor under Herbert Hoover and a fixture on the public payroll since 1921. His successor, who rode the Roosevelt wind across Pennsylvania, is an all but unknown Philadelphia Democrat, 200-lb. Francis J. Myers, 42, who has served three plodding terms in the House...
...Washington last week, Chief Sulzberger had nothing to say about the move that hoisted him suddenly over the heads of such crack, veteran Times correspondents as Herbert L. Matthews (Rome) and Raymond Daniell (London). Against whispers of nepotism stood his record as one of the ablest and most enterprising comers in the foreign field...