Word: herman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HERMAN PHLEGER, 62, to be legal adviser to the Secretary of State. A prominent San Francisco lawyer (Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison), a graduate of the University of California and Harvard Law School, he is a director of numerous banking and business enterprises (American Trust, Union Oil. Moore Dry Dock, Matson Navigation, etc.), a trustee of Stanford. He served as a Navy lieutenant in World Wrar I, and as a legal expert with the U.S. occupation forces in post-World War II Germany...
...been a tough 17 months. One subcommittee member, Idaho's Republican Senator Herman Welker, and two investigators had charged that the subcommittee was being unfair to McCarthy, and had resigned. The original chairman, Iowa Democrat Guy Gillette, had resigned in distress over other resignations. Senator McCarthy himself had stubbornly and slyly avoided testifying in his own defense. He contended that the investigation was just a "smear...
Provost Paul Herman Buck is a great believer in consistency. But his is not a consistency limited to the narrow confines of a particular dogmatism nor capable of blanking out ideas contradictory to a chosen pattern. Quite the contrary, Buck maintains that "the surest cure for the ills of a free society is more freedom" and he has transposed this general belief to Harvard. "The only thing you really need in a University," he states, "is ideas, and an administrator's job is partly to see that a Faculty and student body capable of having ideas are selected and partly...
...Traubel was flabbergasted at the eager, enthusiastic response when she asked a G.I. audience in Seoul if she could give them "just one little Wagnerian aria." Said she: "I thought you'd prefer Betty Hutton, and I'm a far cry from that." Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge, recently elected chairman of the Southern Governors Conference, announced that South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes would act as head of a conference group which will try to "present the Southern viewpoint to the nation." Said Talmadge: "Good public relations is something sorely needed by the South...
Last year Herman Talmadge's Georgia legislature decided that any school district which did not provide separate schools would automatically lose its state funds. If segregation is declared unconstitutional, Georgia intends to turn the schools over to private operators and some how parcel state funds to individual students and let them "arrange" for their own education. Last month South Carolina voted (2-1) for a state amendment authorizing the end of the public-school system (which the legislature presumably would ratify if the Supreme Court rules against segregation). The schools would be turned over to churches or other private...