Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan that had been put forward, by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, had roused the violent objections of Secretaries Cordell Hull and Henry Stimson. The President was said to be leaning toward the Morgenthau side...
Hastily the President appointed a Cabinet committee to consider the problem. The members: Secretaries Stimson, Hull and Morgenthau. The Cabinet committee met three times in three days, just before the President was forced to leave for Quebec. Messrs. Hull and Stimson strongly opposed the Morgenthau program to strip Germany. Both agreed that such a super-Versailles would only justify a future German generation in once more uniting to plan revenge. They wanted rigid controls, for many years to come, but they wanted Germany, for centuries the economic center of Middle Europe, put back on its economic feet. They only wanted...
Henry Morgenthau, talked down in this session, went ahead on his own. Suddenly Messrs. Hull and Stimson learned that Morgenthau was in Quebec. Neither Mr. Hull nor Mr. Stimson enjoy a basic Morgenthau advantage-(for years Henry Morgenthau has always had Eleanor Roosevelt...
...weekly tip sheet, the Kiplinger Washington Letter. The statues are one-third life size, cast in bronze. They have been given to Washington's venerable Smithsonian Institution for permanent public exhibition. Some other sitters: Henry Wallace, Harlan F. Stone, George Marshall, Harry Hopkins, Francis Biddle, Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, Walter Lippmann, John L. Lewis, Donald Nelson. Says Sponsor Kiplinger: "The purpose is primarily historical . . . history is made by men. What did the men look like? How did they stand? What shape of heads? This collection will give to history a personal piquancy...
...Hull's reply was big news; it was issued from Quebec. Secretary Hull announced that he is already planning an international conference on cartels. Washington believed that what Mr. Hull had in mind was a convention against cartels, that he would like other nations to subscribe to the philosophy of the U.S. antitrust acts. Next day, for plain citizens still hazy on why the Administration was so excited, the Justice Department's antitrust division provided an example...