Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most unusual call to rally round Richard Nixon's upcoming inauguration comes from his old Democratic adversary Hubert Humphrey. In a 60-second TV spot he made at the request of the President's inaugural committee, Humphrey delivers a nonpartisan plea for American unity-a happy thought that he agreed to pass on before the bombing of North Viet Nam resumed. Humphrey went ahead with the taping despite the raids, but as an aide said curtly: "It's not a policy endorsement...
...corruption in the Boyle regime. After the Yablonski shooting, two U.M.W. officials, one of them a close Boyle associate, were indicted for conspiracy to commit murder, and Boyle was convicted by a federal jury of handing out $49,000 in union funds to political candidates, among them Hubert Humphrey. But they also mistrusted Boyle for other reasons. He had grown aloof and unreachable. He lived high and dressed fancy, and though he won fat wage increases for his men, he seemed oblivious to the occupational hazards of mining...
...test how much the West-and the U.S. Congress in particular-will tolerate for the sake of trade and better relations with the Soviet Union. Soviet treatment of Jews has already put most-favored-nation status for the U.S.S.R. in jeopardy in Congress (TIME, Sept. 25). Two weeks ago, Hubert Humphrey warned Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other officials in Moscow that congressional concern for the plight of Soviet Jews remains a serious obstacle to the conclusion of multibillion-dollar trade deals with Russia. Mass trials of dissidents like Yakir, who happens to be Jewish, are likely to provoke Congress further...
...James Hubert Blake has been sounding good to a lot of people ever since he composed his first ragtime piece, Charleston Rag, at the age of 16. Born and raised in Baltimore, Eubie was the son of freed slaves. "My father would show me the stripes on his back," he recalls. "He looked like a leopard. My mother would say, 'Don't tell that boy about slavery.' My father said, 'Yes, I want him to know,' and he would say, 'Don't hate the people for that; they thought they were right...
...want loyalty," he once said, "I want loyalty. I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses. I want his pecker in my pocket," He wanted more than loyalty "Servility" might be a better word. After Hubert Humphrey gave a speech which seemed to take some personal credit for the Administration's education policies, Johnson called in the White House correspondents and remarked, "Boys, I've just reminded Hubert than I've got his balls in my pocket." The reminder was probably unnecessary...