Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home from Virginia, he had stopped in Washington to visit old friends. At the naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, he chatted with Cordell Hull. In Harry Truman's White House office, the P.M. talked alone with the President. Presumably, besides discussing common defense problems, they also made plans for the President's visit to Ottawa-some time in June, the P.M. said later, and "the President plans to bring Mrs. Truman with him, and possibly their daughter Margaret...
...joint across the street from Austin High. When they weren't practicing themselves, they were listening to the big-timers-to King Oliver, the great New Orleans Negro trumpeter, or Beiderbecke and the Wolverines. Other Chicago kids began sitting in with the Austin High gang-one was a Hull House kid named Benny Goodman. When Bix left the Wolverines in Manhattan in 1924, they called for Jimmy, whom Bix once called "the greatest white trumpet man in the world." Later, Jimmy joined Ben Pollack's famed dance band. He and Benny Goodman quit when Pollack bawled them...
...year-old Saundra Fay Hall, gave her in return a little silver sombrero he had picked up in Mexico. Later that afternoon he drove over to the Bethesda Naval Hospital to pin a Medal of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster on ailing, aging former Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...Roosevelt-Hull policy toward Vichyfrance has been attacked with more fervor than it has been defended. This book is the most thorough and respectable defense the U.S. policy has had. William L. Langer, Harvard's Coolidge Professor of History and wartime chief of the OSS Research and Analysis Branch, concedes that U.S. Vichy policy may have been an unattractive long-shot gamble, but argues that it was "always substantially sound," judged by U.S. interests. And, he says, it paid...
Historian Langer has had access to such a wealth of unpublished material (State Department dispatches, OSS files, letters by Roosevelt, Hull, ex-Ambassador Leahy, et al.) that his book is of first importance in its field, even for those who do not share his outspoken conclusions...