Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris' Orly Field one night last week Pilot Herbert Tansey got his takeoff signal from the control tower and headed T.W.A.'s big four-engine Constellation down the light-bordered runway. Airborne, he picked up the landing gear and set the Star of Cairo on her course northwest for Shannon, Eire, the first stop on the regular Paris-New York run. It was midnight...
...Unions. The man responsible for the new labor policy is President Herbert Jerome Buchsbaum, 48, plump, energetic owner of the company, who inherited it, along with its anti-union policy, from his father, Samuel. In his youth, son Herbert had been given many an anti-union lesson, used them to break the strike in 1935 after he took over the company...
...Herbert Buchsbaum was convinced that there was nothing good about unions. Says he: "Nothing happened between 1935 and 1940 to change the way I felt. . . . But while I stayed the same, the world around me changed." One change: the Wagner Act. Once more, in 1941, the union called a strike...
Barea's narrative of his first year in besieged Madrid mixes impressions of heroism with comedy, brutality with cowardice. He worked for the Loyalist Foreign Ministry, under shell fire in the Telephone Building, censoring the dispatches of foreign correspondents. He liked Herbert Matthews, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos. Others seemed hateful to him, treating as a football game what he felt to be a tragic .agony. He survived it with the help of an Austrian woman whom he later married...
Holiday Business. In Detroit, 225-pound union President Herbert Thompson, with an eye to rising food costs, set forth the new wage demands of the Santa Claus Union (C.I.O.), explained: "They like us chubby, and we have to eat to stay this way." In Richmond, Ind., Santa Claus Clifford Oldham, after listening to two-year-old Patty Pike's Christmas wishes, handed her an apple, got it right back. Said Patty: "Peel it." In Newark, Santa Claus Herman Quaas was haled into court. The charge: refusal to take the city's health test for all Santa Clauses...