Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis reached Moscow, Congress was debating repeal or amendment of the Neutrality Act, just as it had been debating it two years ago when the war began. Senator Tom Connally was denouncing the Nazis on the torpedoing of the Kearny: "This murderous and foul crime must be avenged"; Secretary Hull was saying again that this act proved Hitler's plan for world domination. The President was still being cagey, and Alf Landon was still warning about collectivism in the New Deal. Martin Dies was still finding Communists in innumerable Government agencies...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee considering the House-approved bill to arm American merchantmen that Germany is pursuing a policy of "intimidation and frightfulness." He urged arming of the cargo boats as a defense move before "it is too late...
Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, followed Hull with a report on the Kearny attack...
...Cordell Hull: Mexico would make a $9,000,000 ''token payment" (made possible by U.S. loans and credits of much more than that) to the oil companies. The money would be placed in escrow pending valuation of the properties by two experts-one from Mexico, one from...
...last week Jersey Standard's tough president, William S. Parish, spokesman for all of the U.S. companies, answered Cordell Hull's proposal with a flat No. He recalled that Mr. Hull himself had insisted, as recently as last year, that expropriation amounted to outright confiscation unless "adequate, effective and prompt compensation" was paid. Real-politiker finally persuaded Mr. Hull that "international law" was not always compatible with Good Neighbor necessities. But Mr. Parish stood firm on the high ground that Hull had once occupied: he demanded arbitration followed by restitution or full payment...