Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lyman Wilbur, who was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Interior and headed a similar presidential commission on health costs...
Died. Margaret P. Swope, 77, widow of onetime New York World Editor Herbert Bayard Swope and quick-witted hostess to the wittiest writers, sportsmen and politicians of her time; after a long illness; in New York. For almost three decades she presided over a dazzling salon as she and her husband mixed repartee and reason with such cronies as Al Smith, Harpo Marx, Gene Tunney, Ethel Barrymore, Bernard Baruch and Dorothy Parker, often at their Long Island mansion, which F. Scott Fitzgerald immortalized as the setting for The Great Gatsby...
Alarmed by this development, Party Boss Willy Brandt, the coalition's Foreign Minister, called the emergency conference to enable the unions and local politicians to let off steam. Both groups are particularly furious at Herbert Wehner, the terrible-tempered party strategist of the coalition. They blame him for coming all too speedily to the troubled Christian Democrats' rescue by agreeing to a coalition, thus depriving the Socialists of a chance to take over completely in the next election...
Atmosphere of Futility. Columbia Graduate Faculties Dean Herbert Deane admits to being "scared to death" by the situation. University concern centers mainly on the fact that the complex planning for next year's budgets, faculty assignments and graduate fellowships must be made long before summer. The uncertainty about just how many graduate students will be called up, and when, is creating what University of Southern California Associate Graduate Dean Charles G. Mayo calls "an atmosphere of futility...
Asked whether the faculty had reached a decision at yesterday's meeting, Herbert D. Long, dean of students, replied, "There's an awful lot of leg work to be done, and I don't know when a final decision will be announced...