Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the sort of extreme statement -like Herbert Hoover's remark about grass growing in the streets-which might bounce back and make Candidate Truman regret that he had ever said...
Because he was a corporation lawyer, he was attacked by a vehement Senate minority and by liberals for his "fixed, set, intolerant mentality" when Herbert Hoover appointed him Chief Justice...
...Hoiles papers are all open shop), majority rule ("The majority can't give my consent to anything"), progressive, income taxes ("nothing but socialism"), public education ("a house of prostitution is voluntary, grade school is not") and aid to Europe ("Let 'em go to hell"). He considers both Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren too leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during the war, he campaigned to give...
Marriage Revealed. Allan S. Lehman, 63, banker and nephew of New York's onetime Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Ann Roche Marshall, 45, fire battalion chief's daughter and Lehman's longtime friend; each for the second time; in Manhattan, one day after his divorce (after 36 years) from Evelyn Schiffer Lehman, to whom he paid a reported $3,500,000 settlement...
...many of our editorial pages," wrote tweedy, 49-year-old Editor Herbert Brucker, "are journalistic quick lunches, manned by short-order essayists . . . What ought to be incisive opinion all too often turns out to be a collection of cliches . . . Is it any wonder that editorials are read by only 49% of the men and 29% of the women...