Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year after year, Lincolnian in frame and profile, quiet, serious, steady, until the Spanish-American War. From around Celina he recruited a company of mountaineers, joined the Fourth Tennessee Regiment-dashing in his long Custer mustaches, big rolled hat. To Cuba they went too late to fight. Captain Cord Hull now turned his attention to poker to kill time...
Lawyer, Legislator. In little Celina, Cordell Hull began practice in 1891. In the fall of 1892 he was elected to serve in the Legislature in Nashville, before he was old enough to vote. In his first term he performed yeoman party service: Acting as lawyer for an elections committee, he helped throw out 20,000 ballots as fraudulent, thereby replaced an apparently elected Republican Governor with an apparently defeated Democrat...
...Hull was 32 when a vacancy occurred in the Circuit Court. Governor James B. Frazier, remembering his services during the election crisis, appointed him judge-a title he still values more than any other. "They changed his name from Hull to Hell," complained the moonshiners. Once he fined his own pappy $5 for sitting in court with...
Congressman. In 1906 Cordell Hull announced for the Fourth District Congressional seat and won election. He stayed in Congress, as Representative and Senator, 14 years, generally pounding along the single track of "free trade." By 1919 he was calling for world economic conferences to level trade barriers. Tossed out in 1920 by the Harding landslide, his-services to the party had been such that he was made Democratic National Committee Chairman as a compliment...
Back in Congress in 1923, long before the New Deal originated, Cordell Hull enhanced his reputation as the party's leading economist. Many times he pointed out that after World War I the U. S. had become a creditor nation, that Europe could pay back only in goods, that it could not pay at all if tariff barriers were built ever higher. He still hates the Smoot-Hawley Act so fiercely that he has denounced it almost daily for nine years; he is certain it caused the world depression...