Word: herberts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...life-saving fund, and Under Secretary of State William Clayton pledged that it would only be used to fill the gap left by an expiring UNRRA. A War Department item included another $725 million for rehabilitation of occupied countries. The two items totaled $1 billion plus-a figure which Herbert Hoover, back from Europe, estimated would be closer to $1.5 billion if all foreign relief programs are to be anywhere near adequate. On top of that would come the $250 million for Greece...
...G.I.s took their troubles to the Veterans Administration, and were told that VA was powerless to help. Last week, however, Smith's President Herbert Davis finished a study of the will and made a manly decision with which the trustees agreed. Said he: the will declares that the leading object of the college shall be the education of young women. "A 'leading object' implies the existence of ... subordinate objects." On that ground, he decided, it was in his power to grant degrees to such subordinate objects...
...follow. Hogs had been going their own wild way for months (see chart). Some metal prices, due to the worldwide shortages, might well rise some more-and stay up. But food was something else again. Wheat was up because of 1) a shortage of freight cars and 2) Herbert Hoover's recommendation that food exports to Europe be stepped up (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...halo of roses and a black satin dress. White tie & tails mingled with business suits, and some sweater-bearing bobby-soxers craned their necks in vain for a look at Author O'Neill (he never attends his openings, and stayed in Manhattan). Ohio's Governor Thomas J. Herbert took his place in a box-and the play began...
...Herbert Bloch was raised to the rank of associate professor of Greek and Latin, while Louis Hartz '40 and David B. Truman became assistant professors of Government in the other three elevations...