Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost perfunctorily, Boss Flynn picked a middle-aged lawyer named Karl Propper, who looks a little like Movie Comic Hugh Herbert. Democratic chieftains, watching the A.L.P. splinter over the Wallace third-party candidacy, figured Propper as a shoo-in. Republicans merely went through the motions: they nominated an unknown building contractor and the G.O.P. boss left town for a Florida vacation...
...well-regulated mind of Herbert Morrison, Labor's Leader of the House of Commons, there are few tendernesses for old abuses. Thus, Labor's bill to reapportion seats in Parliament called, as well, for an end to a time-honored anachronism: plural voting. With a battle cry of "One man, one vote," Laborites denounced in particular the custom of having the financial "City" of London and the graduates of British universities elect their own M.P.s*. Last week, Morrison admitted that he could never think of the ancient City of London "without having in my veins some degree...
...indignation. Cried learned Sir Arthur Salter (one of Oxford's two M.P.s): "It is a blow ... at learning and education . . . when many people . . . are asking what ... is going to be Socialist equality. Is it going to be a leveling down or a leveling up?" Snapped Sir Alan Patrick Herbert (the other Oxford M.P.) in a letter to the Times: "If we ... are so little thought of by our colleagues, I, at least, do not . . . feel warmly inclined for public service elsewhere." He resigned from the Board of the Thames Conservancy and the literary subcommittee for the Olympic Games...
...State Department dug into the matter last week, they unearthed a few more facts. Last year, when Herbert Hoover went to Germany to make a food survey for President Truman, Frank Mason went along, as press-relations man. He had dug up precious prose in Berlin before. As an I.N.S. correspondent after World War I, he had found the log of the U-boat that sank the Lusitania. Also in the Hoover party were Louis Lochner, prewar A.P. bureau chief in Berlin, and Hugh Gibson, onetime ambassador to Belgium. Lochner translated the diaries for Mason, and Gibson is an editorial...
Died. James Herbert McGraw, 87, founder of the McGraw-Hill publishing empire (38 trade magazines and the largest technical book publishing house in the world); after long illness; in San Francisco. In 1885, Schoolteacher McGraw joined the American Railway Publishing Co., later bought an interest in it for $2,500. A spectacularly successful publisher for 50 years, he always claimed that he liked schoolteaching better...