Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull returned to Washington from Havana, richer by one convention, 21 resolutions, one recommendation and four declarations agreed on by the Havana Conference. He said: "The agreements have cleared the decks for effective action...
...doors of Cuba's $20,000,000 Capitolio, stood chatting in the lobby at the head of the long flight of marble steps. Only dark patch in the sea of white was the conservative blue business suit draping the lank frame of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. A long file of big beflagged cars moved slowly through the surrounding palm-shaded park, bringing more conferees to the red-carpeted entrance. By 10 o'clock committees were already at work in secret session, hammering away at the 56 proposals presented for consideration. Along the colored marble corridors...
...delegations' press conferences, heard reports on the morning's progress. Ignored were the colorless, day-late official handouts prepared by Conference Press Chief Count Nicolas del Rivero, brother of Falangist Strong Man Jose Ignacio Rivero. Behind a desk in his eighth-floor Nacional Hotel office, Secretary Hull received U. S. correspondents, biting the plastic rim of his spectacles, answering questions until his growing hoarseness forced Press Chief Mike McDermott to call...
Said Secretary of State Cordell Hull: "I am pleased...
Thus did Dr. Funk poke the U. S. economy in a vulnerable spot. A creditor nation ever since World War I, the U. S. vainly hoped the Smoot-Hawley and other tariffs would keep it that way, forgetting trade is a two-way street. Cordell Hull, knowing that, has long preached reciprocal commerce. World War II put an end for the present to his small successes...