Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than six decades the little (pop. 791) Iowa town of West Branch has listened to old Newt Butler tell the same story-how he licked Herbie Hoover in a scrap at the swimming hole. Last week, as ex-President Herbert Clark Hoover returned to West Branch to celebrate his 74th birthday, Newt reminded his old schoolmate of the bout. Hoover just grinned...
...sentimentality. William Burden Jr., of Indianapolis' John Herron Institute, sent a finely patterned, authoritatively painted study of three bicycling kids. A Portrait o/Roslyn, by the. Pennsylvania Academy's Katherine Grove, showed just how finished student work can be, and the Rhode Island School of Design's Herbert Fink contributed a boy-iff-motion that few professionals would have dared tackle (see cuts...
Next day, in a crowded, angry House of Commons, the storm broke. Though yellow linen blinds shaded the open windows, the atmosphere was like a, hothouse. Majority Leader Herbert Morrison took off his spectacles to wipe his eyes and forehead. Spruce David Eccles on the Tory bench discreetly eased his tie. Cripps looked comfortable and unperturbed when he described the plan in a short statement. Twenty M.P.s leaped up to cross-examine...
...ripped off the open stage of the Archbishop's riding school behind Salzburg's Festspielhaus. In its place workers had put up a simple Ionic-columned portico for this year's big show: an ambitious production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice by ambitious Conductor Herbert von Karajan (TIME...
Died. James Eli ("Sunny Jim") Watson, 84, brass-lunged Old Guard Republican Senator from Indiana (1916-32) and Senate majority leader under Herbert Hoover; in Washington. A high-tariff isolationist, Watson fought the League of Nations, was a busy figure in the G.O.P.'s "smoke-filled room" convention of 1920, which nominated Warren Harding. After the Democratic landslide of 1932 he retired to private law practice and a vociferous back seat in his party. His favorite and most printable partisan aphorism: "Hell is the final home of the Democratic Party...