Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Compensatory Fees. For the first time a play-by-play account of how one of the windfall deals worked was furnished by the contractors themselves. Three Washington builders-Herman W. Hutman, Earl J. Preston and Bryan Gordon Jr.-told how they got $13,846,000 in FHA-insured loans to put up the Shirley-Duke apartments in Alexandria, Va. To meet FHA requirements that the sponsor must have put in 10% of the estimated cost of the project, the builders reported that 1) they had spent $750,000 for architect's fees instead of the $63,000 they actually...
...Navy had refused approval of the picture. In return for the Navy's cooperation (Says Kramer: "I was practically in command of Pearl Harbor for five weeks"), the moviemakers had to endure some niggling at minor points. In the outcome, even the detailed 'tween-decks griping of Herman Wouk's novel has been effectively realigned into a proper topside salute to all things Navy...
...positions elsewhere, and many expected to resign in the near future. Department heads and administrators also admit that it is going to be difficulty to recruit new members for the faculty in the near future." The same source expresses deep anxiety over the expansion of political control of Governor Herman Talmadge makes good his threat to make public schools "private schools" in order to contravene the Supreme Court's recent anti-segregation decision...
Shortly after receving the subpoena, Novikoff conferred with the president of the University, Carl W. Borgmann, and the University counsel, and a few days later appeared voluntarily at an informal meeting of the committee, attended by Senator Herman Welker (Rep-Udaho) and committee counsel Robert Morris. After the meeting, Novikoff announced his willingness to go to Washington at his own expense and testify at a public hearing...
...always have been in favor of improvement and advancement of everything . . . but abolishment of segregation is in no sense an improvement for the Negro . . . You said the Herman Talmadges are not going to write the last chapter in the story of the American Negro's go-year rise from slavery. Well, I can assure you that we shall try to write the last chapter, but if we fail, I guarantee that we shall write the next to the last chapter, and starting as of now, it is going to be a long, long story...