Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Through Secretary of State Hull, stingingly denied recognition to a puppet government which Japan last week set up at Nanking to rule over Central China (where U. S. and most other foreign investments in China are concentrated...
...with one or two, but with three grains of salt. "With even more salt," echoed Mr. Bullitt, before leaving by Clipper for France. Said Count Potocki in Washington: "I have never had any conversations with Ambassador Bullitt on America's participation in the war." Said Secretary of State Hull: "I may say most emphatically that neither I nor any of my associates in the Department of State have ever heard of any such conversations as those alleged, nor do we give them the slightest credence." From Harvard Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. denied that he had Mr. Roosevelt...
Senator Harrison and the conservative Democrats favor Cordell Hull as the logical compromise 1940 candidate. Defeat of his trade agreements meant political death to the one man within the New Deal they can swallow. Democrats of all hues intended Mr. Hull to win. Yet many a Western Democrat still felt he must first go on record against the agreements in order to convince farm, cattle and mining interests that he was fighting for them...
From start to finish there was no doubt that the Hull agreements would go through, materially unchanged, for, although the fight was close, too many men on both sides were determined not to let it end in Mr. Hull's defeat. Most crucial vote came on an amendment by Nevada's florid Key Pittman to permit the Senate to ratify all future agreements as treaties, by a two-thirds vote. Mr. Pittman talked with straight face of the unconstitutionally of delegating this old Senate power, although he has voted consistently for such delegations throughout the last seven years...
...Foxy Pat had won (had actually got one more vote than he needed); the Senate Republicans hoped they had a campaign issue; the Western Democrats were on record in defense of the interests they represent; the Southern Democrats had safely preserved the candidacy of Mr. Hull-a candidacy now theoretically perfect except for the fact that few Democrats believe he can win the election...