Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...violence continued, Ohio's Governor Thomas Herbert rushed to Dayton and persuaded union officials to throw in the towel. But the rank & file electrical workers defied their leaders, voted to remain on strike. Herbert then played his trump: he called out the National Guard to maintain order at the plant. This week, pickets still marched, but Univis apparently would stay open for business...
...wonder. Whatever the causes of the depression, to them Hoover remained its perfect symbol. But the concession was enough to send New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock into fits of dignified glee. Crowed Krock: "A sweeping verdict of 'not guilty,' by this particular juror . . . must have astonished Herbert Hoover more than anything in years...
...Herbert Kappler had heard Italians scream before-at the Ardeatine Caves, for instance, where in 1944 he, as 55 chief in Rome, had directed the massacre of 335 Italian hostages as reprisal for the bombing of 32 Nazi police in a Roman street...
...children, Charlie Allen quit school at 15 to become a runner for the New York Stock Exchange, worked as clerk in a Wall Street house. When he was 19, he knew enough to start his own business as an over-the-counter dealer in unlisted securities. When his brothers Herbert, now 40, and Harold, now 37, had served their apprenticeships in the Street they joined him in his growing business...
JOHN HANCOCK: PATRIOT IN PURPLE (422 pp.) - Herbert S. Allan - Macmillan...