Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...description is unfair. Mr. King never intended to be a politician. He gave up law for social science, studied at Hull House under Jane Addams. Sir Wilfred Laurier made him over into a politician. In a tough game Mr. King became as tough as any of them...
...Reuters correspondent in Normandy. The bomb was pictured as a monstrous thing: up to 90 tons in overall weight, with an explosive head of ten to 15 tons. Its rockets would propel it through the stratosphere at 40,000 feet. Its 250-mile range would bring Birmingham, Manchester, Hull into peril...
Hissed Cissie: "If the Army really needs ALL the able-bodied young men it can get," it can find in Secretary Hull's fold "an assortment of rich, able-bodied and unmarried boys of no particular use to anyone. ... There are plenty of intelligent girls available to more than adequately fill the jobs of these young...
...Violent, Unfair." At his next press conference, Cordell Hull angrily detailed the deferment record, age and marital status of every career man whose picture Cissie had printed. All but four, he announced, are overseas, many in jobs of direct military assistance. No man under 26 in his department is draft-deferred. Publicly, the whip-tongued old Secretary called Cissie's tirade "violent and unfair, grossly unfair." His private comments were probably purple...
...name of Cordell Hull occurs just once in Sumner Welles's book on the past, present & future of U.S. foreign policy. Inasmuch as former Undersecretary of State Welles quit his post because of basic differences between himself and Mr. Hull, such diplomatic restraint might argue a mealymouthed, chilly and platitudinously correct book. Surprisingly enough, Mr. Welles writes a sprightly prose, hits straight from the shoulder when he is discussing what he considers State Department mistakes, and plants himself flat-footedly on the issues which he holds to be important...