Word: hull
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the candidates for public office in Massachusetts is George H. Hull '02, Republican candidate for the state legislature from the third Middlesex district, who worked on the CRIMSON with Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 when both were in college...
...passage of thirty-six years, Hull admits, has dimmed his memory about the two politicoes, but he recalls Roosevelt as "tall, slim and giving the general impression of a pleasing and agreeable personality." He described him as "a well-behaved young man." Bulkley was called Roy, he said...
...question of the University's tax-exemption was a burning one at the turn of the century as well as today, and Hull remembers being assigned by his managing editor to go down to City Hall and get material for a special article on the subject. Nothing came of the agitation by Cambridge officials at this time...
...Hull is particularly interested in the question of civil service reform, having served as assistant secretary of the Massachusetts Civil Service Association. He claims that there are great abuses of the spirit of the law in the present administration in this state...
Secretary Hull is not blind to the forces which would destroy the effect of his trade agreements. He realizes perfectly well that the economic philosophy of self-sufficiency, with its guns-before-butter implications, is not only growing in popularity abroad but is catching on in influential circles in Washington. He knows that the Munich agreement was merely a truce concocted by a Britain desperate for time to rearm. But what he will not do is take the next step and conclude that there is no hope...