Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia, a disorganized opposition to Governor Herman Talmadge included a 400-lb. state representative named C. O. ("Fat") Baker and a pretty, public nurse who once won a county election with the slogan: "You kiss the babies, I'll put their diapers on." Former Acting Governor Melvin E. Thompson was also in the running early (the Atlanta Constitution commented: "fustest with the leastest."). ¶ In Florida, Senator Claude Pepper was in the fight of his long political life with young (36) Congressman George A. Smathers. A personable war veteran with the backing of conservative money, Smathers centered his attack...
Stage designer Jo Mielziner, playwright Mare Connelly, and producer Herman Shumlin will talk on modern theatre at the concluding program Friday evening at Rindge Tech...
...Herman W. Steinkraus, Connecticut manufacturer (Bridgeport Brass Co.) and president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, saw the same danger. "Every group is pressing on Washington to get more, more, more," said Steinkraus at a Cincinnati luncheon . . . "If we keep on this spending spree at the rate we are going . . . our tax burden will become well-nigh intolerable." The nation, he added, is "very near that point which economists refer to as the 'peril point...
Three class agents were chosen yesterday by the 1950 Permanent Class Committee. Selected were Albert B. Carter '50 of Cambridge and Eliot House, Hugh P. Herman '50 of Brooklyn, N.Y. and Adams House, and Richard W. Kimball '50 of Andover and Eliot House. They will be responsible for raising the twenty-fifth reunion gift...
...John F. Cronin, assistant director of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, A.F.L. Economist Boris Shishkin, C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey, Libbey-Owens-Ford's President John D. Biggers, RCA's President Frank Folsom, Macy's President Jack I. Straus, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Herman Steinkraus. Their final report called for nothing less than revolution in the basic approach to labor-management relations...