Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment left its trade relations with Japan precisely as they had been, reserved the freedom to put on the clamps should Tokyo further injure U. S. sensibilities or rights in China. On the day when the trade treaty lapsed and this Damoclean policy went into effect, Secretary of State Hull was bedded with the sniffles. President Roosevelt was mum. U. S. scrap iron, oil, many another export essential to Nippon's Armies continued to move across the Pacific. Embargo-minded Senators were given to understand that it would be a good idea to hold off on bills curbing trade...
...role of 1940 politico, John Lewis first dusted off Indiana's Paul Vories McNutt, whom nobody had considered a likely bidder for C. I. O. support. To a gallery of undesirables which already included John Nance ("Evil Old Man") Garner, Boss Lewis also added Cordell Hull, with unkind references to his trade agreements...
Secretary of State Hull had protested in strongly measured language, got no satisfactory answer. To a note in which he conceded the right of the British to search parcel-post packages at Gibraltar but complained that U. S. ships had been discriminated against, subjected to unreasonable delay, he got no answer at all. Last week, banning the shipment of "articles or materials" by air mail, the U. S. indicated that it thereby removed any further excuse for a repetition of the Bermuda incident...
...Farley is as practical a politician as ever whispered. He is also a Roman Catholic. Dopesters guessed that Jim would gladly yield the Presidency to 68-year-old Cordell Hull, but would dearly love to be Vice President. And Jim's friends think the No. 2 job is not beyond a Catholic's reach. But Jim Farley knows that no man ever got the Vice-Presidency by running for it. So Jim's first campaign speech sounded as if he was shooting for the moon and hoping to hit at least the broad side of the barn...
Next day from Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull dispatched a cable to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, asked him to investigate, do what he could to spring Marjorie's husband. Meantime Jimmy caught cold, was moved to more comfortable quarters, allowed to see his wife. Japanese officials said they had detained Jimmy for questioning, refused bail, refused to say what the charges were against him. At week's end Jimmy Young was still in clink...