Word: herman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...honor for fighting men) on his chest. The station at Quantico (Va.) has two such men: Major Herman Hanneken, who got his medal for killing notorious Haitian Bandit Charlemagne Peralte, and Major Christian Schilt, who won his for landing his airplane ten times in the bullet-swept street of Quilali, Nicaragua, to bring in medical supplies and evacuate wounded...
...Continental account followed him. Last January Adman Bates also took over the Colgate account. Last week there were changes at CPP, of which those at B. & B. were an echo. Advertising Director Roy Peet, with whom Bates worked, moved upstairs to be assistant to President Edward Herman Little. And Adman Bates was given the option of forming his own agency to handle part of the account or of staying on at B. & B. without it. He chose the former. His new agency will handle Palmolive's two shaving creams, Colgate's Dental Cream, Kick (soap chips) and Octagon...
...prefer the more recent stuff, but I've burned gallons of midnight oil listening to Louie and Bessie Smith. All I'm asking from a lot of critics is that they try to be a little more fair in their judgments. They would do well to listen to Woody Herman and Charlie Barnet, before they dismiss them, by saying with amused tolerance: "It's pretty good, but it's commercial." Mike Levin, who wrote the best swing column Harvard ever saw, harped on this for two years, for all the good...
...recognized leader in epidemiology and public health work, he was appointed to the Medical School faculty in 1938. Formerly he was Field Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Medical Director of the Division of Communicable Diseases at Herman Kiefer Hospital, Detroit. He is well known as an investigator of the treatment of scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, meningitis, poliomyelitis, respiratory infections and other diseases. One of his studies for the Rockefeller Foundation was a four-year field research on scarlet fever in Rumania, an investigation in which bacteriologists in many European countries cooperated...
...Willkie family, under Herman Willkie, lawyer, book lover, Prussian-hater, had grown up in an atmosphere of argument that began when Father Willkie woke the boys with a bellowed quotation (a favorite of Lincoln's): "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" and lasted until the evening hour, when he would read to them from one of the 6,700 books that lined the spreading, maple-shaded house...