Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acceptance speech Tom Dewey set out to present the new face of the Republican Party to the U.S. To the rear marched old Chairman Harrison Spangler, with a pat on the back, to a post as "General Counsel." Into Spangler's job came Nebraska-born, Yale-educated Herbert Brownell, 40, Dewey's closest political friend, manager of Dewey's winning Governorship campaign...
Cowed. Somewhere in Normandy, U.S. Army Paratrooper Herbert Sather floated down to earth safe & sound, was shortly evacuated to England with injuries suffered in a foxhole when a cow fell...
Addressing the House of Commons on the robot problem, Home Security Minister Herbert S. Morrison took a cautious line. He admitted that public utilities had been damaged, but only "slightly," and said that civilian casualties were running lower than in the "little blitz" of last February...
...London Home Secretary Herbert S. Morrison told the House of Commons that countermeasures were being taken against the robots and that no exaggerated importance would be attached to them. Visible countermeasures: 1) a heavy flak barrage to explode the bombs in air; 2) more heavy and concentrated bombing against the Pas-de-Calais district; 3) Spitfire patrols which shoot many of Goebbels' gismos into the Channel...
...Long Island landscape as the oil wells atop Signal Hill. A man who started as an infant-prodigy cornetist and went on to conduct radio's Lucky Strike dance orchestra, Rolfe took over the Long Beach Band last year when its founder, an oldtime Sousa (cornet) soloist named Herbert Lincoln Clarke, decided to retire...