Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herbert Hoover made him Chief of Staff in 1930; Franklin Roosevelt kept him on for an extra year-the first Chief of Staff to serve more than the usual four-year tour of duty. In 1935, Manuel Quezon invited him to reorganize the Philippine Army; in 1941, after retirement from the U.S. Army, he was recalled to head American-Filipino forces in the Far East. He commanded the forces on Bataan until ordered to Australia. Lukewarm toward air power before War II, he changed his mind quick to work hand in glove with his air chief, Lieut. General George...
...third generation of Straus merchandisers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The high-domed Harvardman ('97) Put aside academic ambitions to enter Macy's, remained the scholar of the fraternal trio which also included (Idea-Man) Jesse, onetime U.S. Ambassador to France, and (Idea-Muller) Herbert. To gether they expanded the cash-policy business started by their grandfather with a china concession in Capt. R. H. Macy's 114th Street emporium, continued by their father Isidor (lost on the Titanic...
Many a U.S. churchgoer was shocked last week by a stained glass window. The window, intended for the Roman Catholic Chapel of Our Lady of Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base, had been designed by Wilbur Herbert Burnham, a famed designer of church windows. But this one was different. It showed the Virgin Mary surrounded by tanks, antiaircraft guns, planes, blimps. Instead of the Infant Jesus, the Virgin was holding a destroyer-escort vessel...
...good will. Major Ralph Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of Marshall Field's hyperthyroid newspaper, PM, was hard at work as an Army Intelligence officer, seldom had cocktail time. Publisher, now Lieut. Commander Barry Bingham was bossing the Navy's press office at General Eisenhower's headquarters. Herbert Agar, ex-editor of Publisher Bingham's Louisville Courier-Journal, showed up cool and well groomed at luncheons and unveilings whenever his boss, U.S. Ambassador Winant, was otherwise engaged...
...accept the opposite sex." To most people Lonergan does not look like a homosexual. Contrary to popular legend, homosexuals are not necessarily physically abnormal, though sometimes a glandular disturbance is involved. As a rule, homosexuals are made, not born. Psychologists W. Norwood East and W. H. Herbert list seduction in childhood as the commonest precipitating cause. Other causes: 1) a tendency to varied and primitive sexual outlets; 2) an inherited tendency. From Lonergan's repudiated confession to the police he would seem to fall into the varied and primitive sexual outlet group...