Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp., was in Honolulu, on his way home from Korea and Japan, when a telephone call from the White House caught up with him. The call was from John Steelman. Harry Truman's aide wanted to know whether Hoffman, who had been a member of a commission making a Far East economic survey, would head the Economic Cooperation Administration. Hoffman said later: "I tried for two days to think of how to say No, but I just couldn't." Two days later, lugging a suitcase full of dirty laundry, he landed in Washington...
That was Tuesday. He saw the President at noon. At 3 o'clock he appeared at the State Department for a press conference-not on ECA but on Korea and Japan. The President had not yet announced Hoffman's appointment, although every newsman at the conference knew it was in the works. They tried to make Hoffman confirm it. He sat-a benign-faced man with bright blue eyes, protruding underlip and long nose-ducking an answer. The newsmen buzzed after him out the office door. Someone asked if he would accept the job if it were offered...
...Republican & Responsible." But three hours later the news was official. Paul Hoffman, now nominated as the boss of ECA, called another press conference. It was a different Hoffman who confronted nearly 100 newsmen, photographers and newsreel men in the Statler Hotel's Congressional Room. His answers were prompt and candid. He was supposed to be a hard-boiled businessman, said a reporter. Would he be hard-boiled with Europe? "The money we put up for European recovery can only stimulate Europe's economy," he said. "It cannot create...
...Graduate School of Duke University; Richard Bissell, professor of economics at M.I.T.; Dr. Edward Mason, professor of economics at Harvard; Wayne Chatfield Taylor, onetime president of the Export-Import Bank. They said they would rally around. That was Wednesday morning. Bellboys were bringing so many telegrams to Hoffman's ninth floor Statler suite, costing Hoffman so many quarter tips, that he finally ordered all wires held at the desk until they could be brought up in bundles...
Quick Confirmation. Meanwhile, up on Capitol Hill, Senator Arthur Vandenberg brought Hoffman's appointment before the Senate for confirmation. Said Vandenberg: during the months of discussion, the man most frequently mentioned for the job had been 56-year-old Paul Hoffman. Hoffman, said Vandenberg, "was found to be the common denominator of the thought of the nation." Hoffman was also well aware of the need to cooperate with Congress, Van added reassuringly. The Senate confirmed him unanimously, in 10 minutes...