Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herbert Hoover" was written last week upon H. J. res. 133, thus completing the enactment of legislation to reduce 1929 income and corporation taxes...
Results were speedy. The city's clergy unanimously voted an investigation. Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson issued broad denials. Massachusetts' Governor Frank G. Allen ordered his Attorney-General to take "right and proper" action. The article, by Walter W. Liggett, was called "Bawdy Boston." Its charges, stretching over the past decade, were specific...
Among the 400-odd gridiron guests: Tammany Chief John Francis Curry, Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin, Senatorial Host Walter J. Fahy, National City Bank President Gordon John Rentschler, the Governors of Missouri, Kansas, Virginia, Maryland; Senator Grundy (very popular), but not Senator Brookhart...
...ODYSSEY OF HOMER-Translated by George Herbert Palmer; illustrated by N. C. Wyeth-Houghton Mifflin...
...fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer's translation of the wandering of Odysseus is in prose, but faithful to the letter and spirit of Homer's rolling pentameters...