Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the game, Nixon's entourage drove out to the rolling campus of Stanford University (enrollment: 8,760), Herbert Hoover's alma mater in Palo Alto. Dozens trailed after him into the auditorium, where 1,700 jammed the seats and another 1,000 overflowed out on the steps and lawn. The place exploded in cheers as he strode onstage. At the question period he invited barbed ones ("As I said to Khrushchev in Moscow, I've been insulted by experts-so go right ahead"), and got one. Could a man who used innuendoes about political opponents provide...
...final game. In August at Paris, the U.S. and 14 other nations signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, solemnly renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. And in November, Alfred E. Smith, the only Roman Catholic ever nominated for President by a major U.S. political party, lost to Herbert Hoover in a landslide...
...under Republican Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, real per capita national income had climbed by a heady 30%.*In June 1928 the Republican Convention in Kansas City chose a nominee who seemed superbly equipped to carry on the Republican prosperity: Secretary of Commerce Herbert Clark Hoover, 53, a self-made, wealthy, Iowa-born engineer who was the most admired member of Coolidge's drab Cabinet...
...change has been disastrous for the powerful Labor Party, whose restrictive economic policies were a classic example of doctrinally denying working people the benefits socialism has always held out for them. In addition. Labor's brilliant but erratic leader, Herbert V. Evatt-onetime (1948) president of the U.N. General Assembly-also got himself mixed up in seeming sympathy with the Reds, during the defection of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov from the Soviet embassy in Canberra (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954)-When Evatt insisted that only the "vilest liars'" could link him with Communists, a Menzies aide retorted: "Those...
Tryout. In Sun Valley, Calif., Herbert LaFrance, 61, took an overdose of sleeping pills, twice rammed his car into power poles, walked barefoot on the fallen live wires, survived, told police: "I still want to kill myself; I don't know...