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...Internet Movie Database identifies Herb Jeffries as being of "Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian & Irish descent," and notes that one of his five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
...Brown! Until George W. Bush assumed the presidency, it was possible to make a case for either color, mainly because trade associations were largely stymied by the White House or Congress. Now, America's lobbyists have a mind-meld with the most pro-business administration since the days of Herbert Hoover and Warren G. Harding. With a public distracted by war and terrorism, various trade associations are poised to seek an across the board rollback of environmental regulations (60 such regulations are under attack by one estimate), weakened enforcement, and the ability to hand pick the officials who regulate their...
After Enron’s fall, HarvardWatch, a monitoring group revived last year by members of PSLM, began putting pressure on Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65, a member of the Harvard Corporation and the chair of Enron’s Finance Committee, to resign from his post at Harvard...
Following the resignation of Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 from the Harvard Corporation amid controversy over his role as chair of the Enron finance committee, the Corporation appointed another businessperson tainted by the Enron fiasco...
Just two days after Herbert S. “Pug” Winokur ’64-’65 resigned from the Harvard Corporation because of his involvement with Enron, the Corporation concluded its secret deliberations for selecting a member to fill another Corporation vacancy. They chose to appoint one of Enron’s bankers, the Chair of the Executive Committee of Citigroup, Robert E. Rubin ’60, to join their ranks. Although Winokur’s resignation was meant to reduce the Harvard Corporation’s connection to Enron, no one should...