Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the U.S. has yet to feel the full impact of the new silhouette, it was already provoking some violent opinions. The New York Daily News's inquiring reporter served up some samples. Herbert Bayard Swope thought the longer dresses neither revealing nor concealing-just dull. Onetime Cinemactress and Clothes Horse Gloria Swanson said: "They flatter those whose knees do not stand leg-revealing clothes." Look's Mrs. Gardner Cowles: "They make women look long, lean and restricted...
Rebels. Mormonism, with 74% of Utah's citizens, is still the greatest influence in the state's politics. Utah's two Congressmen and both its Senators are Mormons, and so is Governor Herbert B. Maw. Mormon politicians do not invariably follow the hierarchy. Neither the Governor nor Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas are "church candidates" in the sense that they represent the church's ultra-conservative policies on such matters as labor and foreign policy. Mormon voters have a mind of their own, too. Despite the church's opposition they gave Roosevelt a majority four times...
...Work or Want" said the Government's billboards. Last week Herbert Morrison, Deputy Prime Minister, grimly told the House of Commons that no matter how hard Britons work, they will still want...
...Died. Herbert L. Satterlee, 83, patriarchally handsome son-in-law and biographer of the late J. P. Morgan Sr.,* Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt, onetime president of the Union League Club and longtime Manhattan corporation lawyer and social figure; by his own hand (pistol); in Manhattan...
...medicine. But somehow all five wound up in medical schools (they chose different ones). The doctor insisted on only one thing: they must all take a turn in postgraduate training in general practice. He wanted no "cockeyed specialists" in his family. The boys obeyed-but came out specialists anyway. Herbert (the eldest) and Paul became surgeons, William a pediatrician, Philip an obstetrician-gynecologist, Carl (the youngest) an eye, ear, nose and throat...