Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shingle and became an apostle of reform. He was freed from the need of working for a living when he married Mrs. Anna Wilmarth Thompson, a wealthy divorcee. Between cultivating dahlias and collecting stamps, he annoyed Sam Insull, gave his legal talents free to Jane Addams of Hull House...
...called big businessmen the "dervishes of Wall St." He rasped that Hugh Johnson had "mental saddle sores." He lampooned Wendell Willkie as the "barefoot Wall Street lawyer." He even fought with Harry Hopkins and earned Cordell Hull's cold antagonism by blasting away at Fascism long before...
...trim, black-haired Navy lieutenant named Lester R. Schulz strode into the room carrying a locked pouch. The President reached eagerly for the just decoded papers-the first 13 parts of the final Japanese reply to State Secretary Hull. Franklin Roosevelt read them through in ten minutes, waited for Hopkins to read and hand them back. Then the President said: "This means...
That Juan Domingo Perón and the Argentine Government favored the Nazis was hardly news. Outspoken old Cordell Hull had said that a year and a half ago. But the very bluntness of the U.S. Blue Book charge that Perón & Co. had actually conspired with the Nazis, the chapter & verse on names, places and methods profoundly shocked the Americas. Argentines seemed stunned...
...State Department had taken a chance in throwing its haymaker. Argentines, proud of their national dignity, might unite behind Peron as they had when Cordell Hull blasted away at him. That would mean victory for Peron in the forthcoming election. Other Latin nations might jib at lone-handed, stiff-necked U.S. action. But last week press and unofficial reaction throughout the hemisphere backed up the U.S. tough talk. If the Blue Book had not helped Argentina's democratic opposition, neither had it hurt it, apparently...