Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years her senior. She was all nerves. Since her husband was one of Washington's most successful criminal lawyers, she yearned for a suburban home in fashionable Chevy Chase, Md. But Robert Ingersoll Miller, 67, onetime law partner of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, good friend of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, preferred to stay in the drab Victorian brown-brick house on shabby 8th Street. Friends advised Mrs. Miller to take her emotional problems to a good psychiatrist...
...Herbert Fleishhacker, 71-year-old San Francisco banker, tossed peanuts to the animals in the zoo named after him (where, in 1936, the chimpanzee squirted him with a mouthful of water), suddenly fell into the hippopotamus pool. Fleishhacker landed in nine feet of water, was rescued before he rolled under 2,500 Ib. Puddles...
...Malvern College, Laborite Home Secretary Herbert Morrison told an audience of upper-crust British boys that more socialism has been accomplished in Britain by the Conservative Party, which opposes socialism, than by the Labor Party, which espouses it. Added Mr. Morrison: "This is the funny thing about British politics, which only an Englishman understands, and not many of them understand it, but this is how we get along...
Mexican Hayride (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Michael Todd) is a $225,000 tropical splurge. Better musicomedies have been swung on far less money, but Mexican Hayride is a smooth formula job - large-scale and lavish, with good dancing, fair tunes, pleasant people and plenty of Bobby Clark...
Where will business find the billions of dollars needed for postwar expansion? Will private capital flood forth to finance new ventures and help small business grow? Or must business go hat-in-hand to the Government for money? Last week grey, energetic Herbert Frank Boettler, 53, and rotund, easygoing John Wesley Snyder, 47, both vice presidents of the venerable First National Bank in St. Louis, thought they had some answers to these questions. Their suggestion: that a titanic National Industrial Credit Corp. be formed to pump risk credit into business. Labor, business, banks, insurance companies, railroads and private citizens would...