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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article written by the uninspired hand of a man could be more faithful to fact and truth than your Aug. 1 review of Cordell Hull's life. When I was a lad, the Hull family were neighbors. I knew them well. Your picture of Billy Hull is true to life . . . Likewise, the word picture of the career of Cordell Hull does not depart from fact and truth. It reveals the heart and mind of him -America's most respected statesman of modern times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...Your Aug. 1 issue quotes a nameless Swiss girl who allegedly said that the U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to the protection of the President at Geneva were "like gangsters" . . . that "Swiss civilians who happened to have their hands in their pockets when the President passed were startled to have husky U.S. Secret Service men grab them and pull their hands clear." This statement is absolutely untrue. I was in Geneva, and there were no such incidents. Agents of this service had no need to approach any spectator, and did not touch anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...must compliment you on your Aug. 1 cover. At close inspection the faces of these four famous individuals tell a story not only of themselves but of the countries they represent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...temper 1955's optimism with economic horse sense. For several months, Eisenhower Administration economists had been carefully charting the accelerating business cycle. Their decisions: to ease off the accelerator and reach for the brakes. Like the earlier checks on housing loans and brokers' stock-market loans (TIME, Aug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Tightening Up | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Daniel T. O'Shea, 51, onetime movie-mogul turned CBS vice president, was picked by RKO Radio Pictures' new owners (TIME, Aug. 1) to be president, succeeding Howard Hughes's longtime friend James Grainger. Born in Manhattan, Dan O'Shea set out to be a doctor, switched to Law (Harvard, '30). With the help of New Dealer Tommy Corcoran, O'Shea got his first job with RKO, where he made such a hit with RKO Production Chief David 0. Selznick that he was called to Hollywood as resident counsel. There, O'Shea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Aug. 15, 1955 | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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