Word: herbert
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Next day the Palermo shooting continued, casualties increased. The New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews investigated. His judgment: the riots were due in part to economic misery, lack of food. But agents .provocateurs of the powerful Latifondisti (big land owners) had used this misery to promote Sicilian revolt...
With three campaign weeks to go, that was the score. In the time that was left, what could Franklin Roosevelt do to reverse the trend? To some it seemed that up until now he had been hoping to continue the New Deal's twelve-year campaign against Herbert Hoover (see cuts). The Deweymen looked over their case" again & again, pondering the probable points of the Roosevelt attack. What, for instance, were the solid arguments for their man-arguments persuasive to independent voters...
...Tsiang hoped that UNRRA would earmark funds for China's needs next year, start supplying the country in 1946. He said: "In a good democratic way, this document will have to go through a number of committees, and goodness knows when we shall be through." UNRRA Director-General Herbert H. Lehman promised that UNRRA would open Far East offices in Chungking and Sydney by year...
Married. Gloria Marie Callen, 20, beauteous U.S. backstroke champion, holder of 31 national swimming records, Barnard College Junior; and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Herbert Erskine Jones Jr., 23, 1942 Princeton crew captain, now in the submarine service; in Manhattan...
Young, globe-trotting Herbert Hoover Jr., 41, arrived in Washington from the Middle East and promptly hurried to the complicated grey bird's-nest that is the State Department. Hoover's firm, United Engineering Corp., S.A., has been advising the oil-conscious Iranian Government on its oil policies since last June. By last week Teheran oil politics were gushing over. Three U.S. companies-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp.-were seeking oil concessions from suave, car-mad Mohammed Shah Pahlavi in competition with the British Anglo-Iranian...