Word: herbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...villain of Magruder's piece is Colson, whom he calls "an evil genius." Despite his reputation as a grandmother-stomper, Colson comes across as almost pathetically small-time. When not waging interoffice battles against then Communications Director Herbert Klein, Colson seems to have been preoccupied with setting up something called Silent Majority, Inc., a proposed conservative research institute to counter the influence of the liberal Brookings Institution...
...Senate. Indeed, reported TIME Correspondent Don Sider, it was more like Robert Redford v. James Cagney. Facing each other from opposite ends of the state were Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, a lanky, blue-eyed charmer with an engaging grin and earnest air, and former state Insurance Commissioner Herbert S. Denenberg, a cocky, abrasive professor whose "Shopper's Guides" to buying insurance, legal-aid and medical services have made him a consumers' hero. In the end, Redford-Flaherty...
...similar crisis developed in Britain in 1911 after the House of Lords summarily vetoed the domestic reforms of Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. The constitutional confrontation was resolved when King George V, fearing a fatal blow to British democracy from the House of Lords, threatened to appoint enough new Lords to give Asquith a majority. The Lords gave in to the King's pressure, and since then the power of the House of Commons has never been seriously questioned...
...galley proofs for the department also carry delete marks on all the listings for courses currently taught by another Marxian, Herbert M. Gintis, assistant professor of Economics...
...Dean tells how the President's personal attorney Herbert Kalmbach raised money to pay the attorneys' fees for the Watergate defendants, Nixon speculates that the "cover of a Cuban committee" must have been used. (Some of the burglars were Cuban exiles...