Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months after Pearl Harbor, good, grey Cordell Hull grew greyer and paler. He had played a role like Joshua's, trying to make the Rising Sun stand still. He had fought a desperate delaying action, talking endlessly with the wily Japanese envoys, straining every one of his tough but ancient fibers to postpone a day that he knew must inevitably come. The campaign wore out 70-year-old Mr. Hull. Weakened by colds and grippe, nerve-shot, the Secretary of State went to Florida in February, to rest...
Last week he was back at his desk in Washington, tanned and heavier, calm and cheerful. Relaxed in his big black chair, Mr. Hull had the air of a man whose vindication was sure...
...Washington's onetime great had faded away; their jobs were no longer important or they had been tried by war and found wanting. Jesse Jones had lost much of his power, more of his prestige. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins had virtually no job left. Good, grey Cordell Hull, who returned to his desk this week after a long rest in Florida, had seen the world shrink smaller and smaller...
...Army, the Navy and Donald Nelson's War Production Board. By executive order, BEW took stockpile control from the slow hands of Jesse Jones. BEW took the final say on international trade away from the State Department, the first successful raid by the New Deal on Secretary Hull's demesne since...
Then, after the Jap had left, the destroyers finished the job. The old covered wagon, like a crippled dog, was still on her feet. The destroyers swung alongside, sent shell after shell into her hull. Finally she was totally hit. Low in the water, she lurched, bubbled horribly, went down. Her airplanes were safe from...