Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Hull boarded the President's train as soon as it halted in Washington's Union Station, motored with his chief to the White House. There Franklin Roosevelt's first act was to go out to the south portico with his wife, set off their seventh annual Easter Monday egg-roll. To thousands of cheering children, he said: "It is a wonderful day. . . . I wish I could be down there with...
...world, Britain's statesmen would not back him up. He could do little more in public than denounce treaty-smashers as pungently as diplomatic usage permitted. Before leaving office he visited Franklin Roosevelt at Hyde Park, indelibly impressed him. In the past six years, Colonel Stimson and Cordell Hull have become great cronies behind the scenes...
...Morgenthau clapped an extra 25% duty on German exports proved to have been subsidized. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is on record as opposing cotton export subsidies (although Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has since July 1938 dumped 67,000,000 bushels of wheat abroad). But last week Cordell Hull and Henry Wallace no less than Franklin Roosevelt felt that King Cotton, overloaded by a bumper 1937 crop of 19,000,000 bales, had got out of hand...
...Polls, which probably lead public opinion as well as record it, last week showed striking increases in the strength of leading popular choices for the 1940 Presidential nominations. Among Democrats, John Nance Garner rose from a 20% choice (December) to 42%. Trailing him in order: Jim Farley, 10%; Cordell Hull, 10% ; Harry Hopkins...
Less than two hours after the committee's action, Secretary of State Cordell Hull aimed a stinging rebuke at Germany's Czechoslovak and Memal moves...