Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returned to the White House. Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee shifted to the White House switchboard its private line to Chicago. The President called Jim Farley, extended his good wishes for the convention. "How are things going?" he asked. "Okay," said Jim Farley. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, preparing to leave for Havana, stopped to lunch with the President. Said White House Spokesman Steve Early: "Probably nobody will believe it, but they're going to talk about the Havana Conference...
...suggestion I am about to make," wrote Mr. Boyd, "may at first glance seem inexpedient, but I believe it has real merit and I urge you to give it very serious consideration. The suggestion is that the Democratic National Ticket in 1940 should be: For President-Cordell Hull; for Vice President-Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...that the tough talk had started well ahead of schedule. It was not very impressive to begin with. Fortnight ago Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop launched an attack on the Monroe Doctrine on the eve of the Havana Conference (TIME, July 15). Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, before setting out for Havana with eight trade, monetary, agricultural and political experts, slapped back at another attempt to make trouble. From Costa Rica, Guatemala and Nicaragua came reports that Dr. Otto Reinebeck, German Minister to the Central American Republics, had circulated a note of warning among the small...
...distinction of Cordell Hull's term as Secretary of State has been his personal success at Latin-American Conferences. Almost singlehanded he saved the seventh Pan American Conference of 1933 at Montevideo, unobtrusively calling on Latin-American Foreign Ministers with a personal good-neighborliness that disarmed suspicion. When Mr. Hull flared up at the new Nazi attempt to influence the Conference, he used a tough word: he called it "intimidation." There was no theory, he said, on which any nation could attack the Havana meeting; there was no reason for any nation to attack the sovereign rights...
...useful purpose, said Mr. Hull, could be served by continuing the discussion. Said Steve Early for the President at Hyde Park: the U. S. has no intention of interfering in territorial adjustments in Europe or Asia, but "the Government of the U. S. wants to see, and thinks there should be an application of the Monroe Doctrine in Europe and Asia similar to its application of the Monroe Doctrine in this hemisphere...