Word: howard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What's more, the modernists are leaving their customers no place to hide. Surrounded by transparent walls, the harried dweller in the Neutra home must seek total privacy-if he is old-fashioned enough to desire it-in the confines of his bathroom. HOWARD B. UPTON Tulsa, Okla...
...when he could watch three political plums safely deposited in the hands of three good friends. At a swearing-in ceremony, a function which he always hugely enjoys, he handed ex-Attorney General Tom Clark his commission as a Justice of the Supreme Court. Ex-Democratic National Party Chairman Howard McGrath got his commission as Attorney General, and Bill Boyle Jr. got a gavel and the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee...
...outgoing national chairman, Rhode Island's easygoing J. Howard McGrath, had never wanted to be beastly to the Dixiecrats. He thought that judicious use of patronage and cajolery would corral some Dixiecrat votes in Congress for Harry Truman's Fair Deal. It hadn't done any such thing...
Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, an on-again, off-again Communist Party member, found old ties still binding. When he sought a visa to attend a Los Angeles testimonial dinner, the U.S. embassy politely referred him to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Protested Rivera: "I don't have the honor to belong to the Communist Party. I'm just a simple democrat like anybody else...
Died. Charles Dewey Hilles, 82, Old Guard GOPolitico (chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1912-16); in Speonk, N.Y. He ran William Howard Taft's unsuccessful bid for reelection, was President Taft's personal secretary during his White House term; later, as national committeeman from New York, helped elect Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...