Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
Minnesota's freshman New Dealer Hubert Humphrey read a speech 105 pages long. Senators from the industrial East, Senators from the conservative South, were waiting to be heard. It would be a long hot summer in Washington...
Frank Matthews looked like the solid, conservative type the Senate would confirm without much fuss. Nebraska's two Republican Senators, Kenneth Wherry and Hugh Butler, liked him. A handful of liberal Senators, led by Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, were less happy about the President's choice. They remembered Matthews from 1946, when he sparkplugged a U.S. Chamber of Commerce campaign to paint Communist Red on the Administration and on union labor...
...native of the midwest, Mr. Weidman began his dance career with the company of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. Following a period of study at the Denishawn School in California, Mr. Weidman and Miss Rita Humphrey formed a concert group of their own in New York...
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