Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour-long chat with ailing Cordell Hull at Bethesda Hospital. "Opened the San Francisco conference, by radio (see INTERNATIONAL). " Ordered Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace to begin an inquiry into the alleged misuse of patents to foster monopolies and cartels...
...called his second press conference, argued quietly but earnestly that Russia asked only to delay the vote until Argentina's record could be studied. At a full session of the world conference that afternoon, Molotov stumped to the rostrum, quoted Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull on Argentina's recent sins against the Allies. But arguments did not count; the U.S., the Latin Americans, most of the Europeans had lined up against him. On the decisive vote, only Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Greece supported the Soviet Union. Many a delegate instantly wondered: would Molotov and his delegation take their beating...
...called his second press conference, argued quietly but earnestly that Russia asked only to delay the vote until Argentina's record could be studied. At a full session of the world conference that afternoon, Molotov stumped to the rostrum, quoted Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull on Argentina's recent sins against the Allies. But arguments did not count; the U.S., the Latin Americans, most of the Europeans had lined up against him. On the decisive vote, only Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Greece supported the Soviet Union. Many a delegate instantly wondered: would Molotov and his delegation take their beating...
...sure that G.O.P. internationalists had no intention of selling the U.S. down the river, found that actually he was not far away from their views. The change was sped by the private conferences which Vandenberg, as a member of a Foreign Relations subcommittee, had with Secretary of State Hull, and by the wholesale approval by the U.S. people of responsible internationalism. "What finally made me a fanatic," Vandenberg says, "was the robot bomb...
Errol Flynn surprises by doing his best to forget he's a matinee idol, and pretty nearly carries it off. Henry Hull is excellent as a rather improbable superannuated newspaperman who gets himself taken along on the theory that someone is needed to relate the action to the philosophy of global war. For the fans, the Flatbush soldier is here, too, played by George Tobias...