Word: robert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choosing Ed Noble, Mr. Hopkins pained two ambitious Assistant Secretaries. But the change brought promotions to two of Ed Noble's former CAA associates. Up to the vacated chairmanship moved Robert Hinckley of Utah, 48. Into the Hinckley seat moved Edward Pearson Warner, a professor of aeronautics at M. I. T., onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, lately a technical adviser to Ed Noble...
...There were also speeches-off the record. Franklin Roosevelt as usual was the star guest, the virtuoso of ribbery. Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft was presented (in person) as a Republican foil to the President. Bob Taft proceeded to make on-the-record news by making a sensationally poor speech. When he had finished, New York's Tom Dewey applauded, grinned. He shared his friends' certainty that, if speechmaking has much to do with it, Bob Taft will not be hard for him to beat for the Republican Presidential nomination...
...around Herr Hitler on a reviewing stand are to be the familiar, conspicuous figures of the Nazi hierarchy-fat, strapping Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, mousy little Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, coarse, Jew-baiting Julius Streicher, Nazi Deputy Leader Rudolf Hess, Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley. Inspector Himmler will be there too, but the weak, fleshy-chinned, owlish Gestapo chief, looking more like an Austrian Gymnasium teacher than a leader of men, will be the least conspicuous of them...
...Robert Moses, Commissioner of Parks for New York City, delivered the first in a series of two lecture yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Godkin Lecture Foundation...
...Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina in the evening's other address on "The Present Situation in Europe," counsellor isolation...