Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lapham professed little knowledge of China (he has been there twice), but Hoffman was chiefly impressed with his administrative talents. He had been with Herbert Hoover's American Relief Administration after World War I, was called to Washington on the eve of World War II to serve on the National Defense Mediation Board, later on the War Labor Board. As mayor, he had put San Francisco's needs ahead of politics, had rammed through city purchase (for $7,500,000) of the Market Street Railway. He had been president, later board chairman, of the American-Hawaiian Steamship...
...rhymes with how-she), the Democrats' best vote-getter in the Midwest, returned to the wars. Opposed by the state's Dem ocratic machine (including Harry Truman's new Commerce Secretary, Charles Sawyer), he won his gubernatorial primary handily. He will oppose Republican Governor Thomas J. Herbert, who beat him by a whisker...
United Nations World, launched by former Yank Boss Egbert White with the aid of Michael (New Republic) Straight (who later dropped out), was spending some of its $400,000 in new capital on an expanded business section (up from three pages to 16). Under ex-WPB Adviser Herbert Harris, United Nations World (circ. 85,000) will run special stories on basic industries and commodities, and more pictures in a streamlined format...
...SPANISH STORY (282 pp.)-Herbert Pels-Knopf...
Once a newspaperwoman, interviewing Economist Herbert Feis (rhymes with nice), thought that his eyes reflected "the soul of a young Shelley." In 1931, Secretary of State Stimson, who was not seeking a Shelley, read the young professor's Europe, the World's Banker and made him economic adviser to the State Department. Feis held the job until 1944, when he got tired of U.S. muddling in economic policy...