Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former U.S. Presidents took issue with the court. Said Dwight Eisenhower: "I always thought that this nation was essentially a religious one." Herbert Hoover was more outspoken. He called the decision a "disintegration of one of the most sacred of American heritages." Congress, he said, "should at once submit an amendment to the Constitution which establishes the right to religious devotion in all governmental agencies-national, state or local." President Kennedy carefully-and wisely-supported the court's decision-making power, avoided direct comment on the merits of the decision (Eisenhower employed much the same technique in his reaction...
...recent issue of The New Yorker, Golf Expert Herbert Warren Wind recalls that it was in the spring of 1960 that Arnold Palmer "won the Masters tournament for the second time and established himself as a most exceptional golfer." And it was then that he made our cover (TIME, May 2. 1960). Last week the great man was challenged by a brilliant young competitor. Jack Nicklaus, 22, who becomes the subject of this week's cover, written by Sport Editor Charles Parmiter...
...down, and keep the party lively with "interesting" people. Some honorary-degree recipients have become the equivalent of Supreme Court Justices on the Washington party circuit-distinguished figures with lifetime tenure. Eleanor Roosevelt and Ralph Bunche long ago lost count of their degrees. Herbert Hoover has 85, Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...help recalling 1929 and its aftermath. The smashup of 1929, leading to the Great Depression, crushingly ended the rarely interrupted Republican dominance that began with Abraham Lincoln. For a proud Democratic President, it would be hard to imagine a fate more hideous than to become the Democratic version of Herbert Hoover...
Domination by Default. That every thing went so smoothly was a tribute to the work of a hard-bitten organizer-Deputy Chairman Herbert Wehner, 55, an ex-Communist who is the Socialists' organization boss. For months he had administered what he calls Seelenmassage (soul massage) to the party bosses in every region of the nation, arguing, cajoling, and elbowing them into fully accepting the new party line that began taking shape more than four years ago. Now, more than any other man, Wehner was in command of West Germany's oldest (founded 1863) and biggest (650,000 dues...