Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...music by David Diamond and eloquent lighting by Elizabeth Hull point up the moments of highest dramatic import. A stylized setting by Eva Le Gallienne presents the entire island scene on one revolving stage and makes the most of the three unities in the play. A minor flaw is Motley's costuming, which is in the nineteenth-century tradition and does not match the rest of the production...
...State Department was buzzing with vim & vigor last week, and its collective face was wreathed in smiles of jolly good fellowship. Painters slapped pistachio green on the drab cream walls of State's drafty old home on Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue. A panting porter lugged away Cordell Hull's cherished rubber plant. Under scaffolds and around carpet-menders, platinum-topped Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius bustled like a busy host at a party. He invited the press to the swearing-in of five of his six new top aides,* whom he fondly calls his team...
...Jones, who has held more New Deal jobs at one time than anyone else,* has also acquired an army of powerful friends, in & out of Congress. Last week Jesse's friends rallied round: businessmen befriended by RFC, fellow Southern Conservatives Kenneth McKellar, Walter George, and even old Cordell Hull, who was not too ill for a little political maneuvering. The President got word that it would not be "practical" politics to chop off Jesse's white-thatched head...
...summer of 1943 Jones held, simultaneously, 18 jobs. On the total number of jobs held during twelve New Deal years, he trails. Thus far, Harold Ickes has held 141 New Deal posts; Henry Wallace, 127; Henry Morgenthau Jr., 122; Cordell Hull, 86; Frances Perkins, 85; Jones...
...even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this was the fault of feuding Cordell Hull, who was not keen on reorganization, anyway. Stettinius is proud of his attempt to redecorate the department's archaic architectural monstrosity. He created a pretty press room, increased the wattage of lights and removed the desks of messengers from the halls. But Cordell Hull balked at repainting doors in pastel...