Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perjury in 1951 in connection with the influence-peddling scandals (TIME, Aug. 15, 1949 et seq.), went to work last week as a $1.61-an-hour laborer in the House of Representatives' folding room, where printed matter is made ready for mailing. Pennsylvania's Democratic Representative Herman P. Eberharter said that he had written a letter to the House Democratic Patronage Committee recommending Maragon. Growled Ohio's Republican Representative William H. Ayres: "If the Democratic leadership wants to take care of its ex-convicts this way, there's very little that can be done about...
Dutch Lawyer Herman Bouman, who opened for the defense, was accused of being a criminal accomplice in the case he was defending. After police badgered him and searched his home, he fled to Holland, leaving his wife Mieke behind. The Indonesians announced that Bouman's flight proved his guilt, and the prosecution pointed an implicating finger at Bouman's wife "since especially in Western society, it is not possible that a man goes abroad without his wife knowing...
...Since Herman Ridder, an immigrant's son, bought the German-language New York Staats-Zeitiing in 1890, the publishing Ridder clan has grown to three sons and eight grandsons-and their newspaper empire has kept pace. This week Ridder Publications Inc. bought the only two dailies in Pasadena. Calif., the evening Star-News (circ. 41,120) and the morning Independent (circ. 35,588). Reported total cost: $4,500,000. That made six California newspapers picked up by the Ridders in 3½ years, giving them a monopoly not only in Pasadena but also in Long Beach and San Jose...
...stations. "This expansion will stop," said a Ridder employee last week, "when you run out of Ridder boys." The eight Ridder grandsons-who all help to run the papers, have already sired a dozen sons of their own. To help strangers sort out the clan, grandson Herman H., 47, president of the company, carries an oversized business card with a family tree diagrammed neatly on the back...
...Stranger. In Asheville, N.C., asked by police who picked him up on a disorderly conduct charge how many times he had been arrested, Herman Banks said that he didn't know: "My wife has had me up here so often my dog follows the police cruisers...