Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is Hell." And Boston appreciated -as few other U.S. cities would-the furious forthrightness he demonstrated as Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover. He admired Hoover (although he had been a Democrat until 1920). He took it upon himself to praise him publicly at a time when White House relations with Congress were strained...
...Said Herbert L. Matthews in The Education of a Correspondent: "The destruction of Guernica will forever rank as the prototype of totalitarian bombing. There one had the systematic and complete obliteration of a town far behind the front lines-which was going to be taken without difficulty anyway, since the Loyalist troops were routed. ... It was the heart of Vizcaya, and to smash it was to break the heart of the Basques...
Able, bald Everett Needham Case four years ago became a college president at 41; last week his kid brother, James Herbert Case Jr., made the grade the day before he turned 40. Jim Case took over at small, 159-year-old Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., 300 miles southwest of Brother Ev's Colgate. Chief speaker at the inaugural: Brother...
...legislative confusion that confounded Wood-row Wilson in 1918 and Herbert Hoover in 1930 may appear again--while the United States writhes in another world crisis--when the votes of next Tuesday's election are tabulated and the Eightieth Congress is on its way to Washington. Both the pages of history and the opinions of "political experts" portend a loss of Democratic power. But should scattered defeats become a national rout, both the voting records of Republican congressmen and the plans of G.O.P. leaders augur two years of stalemate and a future of reaction...
This was Central High in the days of the Charleston and Button Up Your Overcoat, the days of goldfish swallowing, cloche hats, Herbert Hoover's first presidential campaign, rolled stockings...