Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behalf of the young men still in diapers, of this and other countries, who will do the fighting and dying in World War III, I extend sincere encouragement and hopes of good luck to Messrs. Stimson and Hull...
World Security. Here Tom Dewey successfully moved to make U.S. foreign policy both positive and bipartisan. He had loosed a blast at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, expressing fears that Dumbarton Oaks would degenerate into a Big Power conference serving only the Big Powers' ends. When Cordell Hull rose to defend himself, Dewey promptly sent Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles as his emissary to the State Department. The U.S. people, who had known little of Foster Dulles, learned that this scholarly, experienced lawyer might be Tom Dewey's choice for Secretary of State. Whatever exuberant hatchet jobs were subsequently...
...slow opening scene never comes to an end; surprise No. 2 is that the second scene reaches truly hilarious proportions; and surprise No. 3 that the end result is a very pleasant bit of fantasy with an occasionally inept script but a winning idea and the excellent Josephine Hull and Frank Fay in the leading roles...
...nudging Fay for honors is Josephine Hull, fresh from "Arsenic and Old Lace," and still possessed of a fresh and effervescent enough touch to carry some of "Harvey's" more lagging moments to an agreeable conclusion. Miss Hull is Vita; she loves her brother Elwood but that pooka has been scaring away all her guests. She tries to deposit Elwood in a straight jacket at Chumley's Rest, so she can forget the pooka and climb the social ladder with her niece, Myrtle. Naturally, she too becomes attached to Harvey before the affair is over...
...Albany correspondents this week wrote "authoritative" stories saying that Dewey, if elected, would ask Cordell Hull to stay on to help him. Said Cordell Hull in careful reply: "My support and loyalty belong primarily to the Government and its present official head, President Roosevelt...