Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Franklin Roosevelt: "Joy . . . entered . . . hearts." General John J. Pershing reminisced on: ". . . the heart of France." Correct old Cordell Hull unbended to sum up: "Heartening...
...yellow-haired New Deal Congressman, Warren G. Magnuson, suggested an answer which might have come straight out of the pages of Dr. Fu Manchu-the Japanese, said he, had "made a patsy" out of the State Department. Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, the story went, had complained to Cordell Hull that the far-ranging activity of the U.S. Navy gave Japanese militarists a chance to block his efforts at preserving peace. As a result, charged Magnuson, the fleet was kept anchored at Pearl Harbor and even air patrols curtailed, to assure the Japanese people that the U.S. planned no attack...
Secretary of State conferred with Cordell Hull last week, two hours a day for three days...
...meetings ground on, only meager press releases were issued, containing perfunctory information. For the conference itself was secret, and delegates were forbidden to grant interviews. But Cordell Hull promised a full account at the conference's end-probably in three or four weeks...
...York Times report that he hoped to send a world-security plan to the Senate before the end of the war. The President said that obviously he was not there just to answer silly things printed in the newspapers. They knew perfectly well, he went on, that Mr. Hull had taken everyone into full confidence on those matters. For some moments he answered questions snappily, edgily...