Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week laid his mellowed memoirs on the tomb of the New Deal. Although the wreath was appropriately floral, there were (also appropriately) some thorns among the roses. Excerpts from his good, grey story, written* at Bethesda Naval Hospital and soon to be published in two volumes by Macmillan, began appearing last week in the good, grey New York Times...
...Errand Boy. Gravely, 76-year-old Cordell Hull sought to correct the impression that he was little more than an errand boy in a State Department actually bossed by Franklin Roosevelt. Between Roosevelt and him there was never an "unfriendly word," although "a few emphatic differences rose between us which we thrashed out bluntly but in a friendly spirit." Hull had to make his own decisions "in the majority of cases." He recommended the moral embargo against Italy during the Ethiopian war. He worked out the details with the British on the overage destroyer deal...
...Fast, Too Far. The only basic differences between Hull and Roosevelt cropped up in domestic matters. Hull remembered those differences with a wince. "I was frankly glad not to be invited into the White House groups where so often the 'liberal' game was played on an extreme basis." He once said to Roosevelt: "I can't help but feel that you're going too fast and too far with certain of your domestic reforms...
With the same alacrity shown by ex-Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Hull hastened to divorce himself from any part in the Roosevelt spending program: "[I] stood for a fixed policy of balanced budgets...
...Questioners. The commissioners were serious and conscientious men. Their chairman was Thomas K. Finletter, a dry, sharp-eyed Wall Street lawyer (Coudert Bros.), onetime special assistant to Cordell Hull and author of a book, Can Representative Government Do the Job?, which pointed out the inefficiencies of the U.S. Government...