Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HERBERT MITGANG...
After suffering so much for suffrage, women were oddly hesitant about exercising their voting rights. Not until 1928, when Al Smith's Catholicism, Tammany Hall connections and anti-Prohibitionist sympathies roused a feminine stampede for Herbert Hoover, did as many as 50% of the eligible women cast their ballots...
...hope to be elected in this state without being photographed eating a hot dog at Nathan's Famous." Among others who have put in dutiful appearances are former Governor Averell Harriman, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner and New York's former Senator Herbert Lehman. The show biz set also flocks to Nathan's, including Frequent Customers Jerry Lewis. Danny Kaye, Eddie Fisher, Shelley Winters, Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor...
...outs, said he, would be "a decent, logical, common-sense element of our own legal foundations, of our Constitution." Police in New York and Detroit, slum-ridden cities singled out by Lee, were aghast. Sit-outs, said Detroit's Police Commissioner Herbert W. Hart, would be treated "as flagrant violations of the law, and everyone participating would be arrested for obstructing traffic...
...rhetoric, but only with cool analysis, efficient hard work, and political skill: and both have unusual capacity for precisely this kind of exercise. Both analyzed the problems of the nation in their acceptance speeches extremely well. Both concentrated on the future and left most of the usual nonsense about Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman, the party of the depression and the party of war, to their backward-looking brethren...