Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Notably: James A. Farley (TIME, June 23), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (TIME, Sept. 29), James F. Byrnes (TIME, Oct. 20), Henry L. Stimson (TIME, Jan. 5), Cordell Hull (TIME, Jan. 12). * From Morgenthau's memoirs: "I remember John Garner turning to me one day in Cabinet meeting and saying, half jokingly, half not, 'Damn you old moneybags. Until you came along Mrs. Garner and I averaged 16% a year on our money, and now we can't get better than...
...morning last week Isaac Hull, fisherman turned boardinghouse keeper, was up & about. It was bitter cold (6°), and he needed an early start at his fire-making. His Hull Home, in downtown St. John's, was jampacked with 70 boarders, most of them government-supported poor, aged or infirm, awaiting admission to public institutions. Proprietor Hull lit the kitchen oil range, then bustled next door to light another in the annex. By the time he was ready to leave the annex, the 15-year-old main building, where he had started the first fire, was doomed. Flames, apparently...
...aged women abandoned hope of rescue, plunged from the third-story windows to death on the sidewalks. Firemen came in time to snatch six through windows and down the ladders before the gale-whipped flames enshrouded the building. The ailing, the infirm and the bedridden in Isaac Hull's boardinghouse had no chance...
...additions to the seven-man committee include: Gerald H. Fisher '49, Charles T. Hesse '50, Brantley Harris '49, and Morton D. Hull...
...World War I. Aboard her, the Germans surrendered their Navy in 1918. During World War II, she almost met an ignominious end. In 1942, as she lay moored in the shallows of Alexandria harbor, Italian "human torpedoes" got in under her, attached time charges, blew great holes in her hull. Patched in the U.S., she finished out the war in the East Indies...