Word: herbert
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...HERBERT LIEBERMAN 416 pages. Simon & Schuster...
With the appearance of Novelist Herbert Lieberman's City of the Dead, the faint of stomach are in for yet another assault on their feelings. Yet precisely because Lieberman's book, certifiably the shocker of the summer, speeds up the already overaccelerated trend toward limitless carnage, it vividly raises an old, unpopular question: Might not the squeamish have a point after...
...Judge Herbert Travers is studying transcripts and exhibits from the hearing and will decide on the motions for dismissal when the case comes up for trial in October...
...HERBERT GUTMAN IS a social historian, who for the last 15 years has been waging the seemingly losing battle of writing American history 'from the bottom up. And his new book, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America, affirms more strongly the need to preserve and reexamine primary sources in American labor history from its very beginning. For Gutman has begun the difficult and long-awaited task of constructing a sound, workable historical analysis of American labor...
...left a prospering building-materials business for politics, "the noblest of careers," becoming New York State Democratic Secretary by 1928, when he managed F.D.R.'s successful gubernatorial race. In 1932 Farley steered Roosevelt's drive for the Democratic presidential nomination and his election victory over Herbert Hoover; armed with ample power and patronage as both national Democratic boss and Postmaster General, he masterminded an even bigger win for F.D.R. in 1936 against Alf Landon. After that, Old Pol Farley fell out with the patrician F.D.R. and his zealous New Dealer's, and in 1940 he quit...