Word: herman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show since 1937. Out went party-liner Robert Buse, leader of the bloody, 33-week Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, Nov. 11). In a bold sweep, the right-wingers captured all top offices and 15 out of 26 seats on the state council. The new president: Milwaukee's Herman Steffes, right-wing head of U.A.W.'s Local 75 at the Seaman Body division of Nash-Kelvinator...
Outpost of Empire. Victor, Joseph (his twin) and Bernard Ridder thereby added a new outpost to a little-known, $15,000,000 empire that already stretched from coast to coast. Its founder was astute Herman Ridder, who started the Catholic News 60 years ago, bought Manhattan's Staats-Zeitung in 1890 and died in 1915, leaving to his sons the delicate job of steering a German-language paper through the storms of anti-German feeling in World...
Last Straw. In Boonville, Mo., Herman Boggs spotted a life preserver in the river, went after it, drowned...
...highway, put-putting toward Vienna, was a motorcycle carrying Herman Reitman, well-known Viennese motorbike rider, and a woman companion, Katharina Grünhut. A light sedan going faster in the same direction came up from behind and apparently started to pass. Then inexplicably the vehicles swerved together, the motorcycle bounced off to the side of the road, where its two passengers lay groaning. A few passers-by ran up to them. The sedan braked to a stop farther down the road and the driver climbed out and walked back. Taking a hasty glance at the scene, he drew...
Everybody but Hollywood had scouted hula-hipped Herman ("The German") Wedemeyer, St. Mary's Hawaiian-born 170-lb. halfback. An All-America sophomore last year, he had turned down $20,000 from the football pros this spring. Two big-league baseball clubs-the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs-had been after him. So were several sharp-eyed West Coast fight managers, who thought he was a natural boxer. Last week, making his Manhattan debut against Fordham before 30,798 Polo Grounds fans, Weddmeyer, a quadruple-threat man, ran, kicked, blocked-and threw three touchdown passes...