Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, back from a rest in Hot Springs, Va., introduced his new Under Secretary to a press conference with a verbal bouquet. Smiling and with hands on the back of a chair in the familiar Hull manner, Ed Stettinius said: "This is the climax of my young career." The man who left a $100,000 headship of U.S. Steel to enter Government service, who was generally praised for his work as Lend-Lease Administrator (TIME, Oct. 4), now faced the toughest administrative job of his career. Largely in his hands was the direction...
...leader, chose him last summer as one of the heads of the liberal Action Party that now, under the home-front guidance of doughty Emilio Lussu, is one of the united underground groups struggling to shape Italy's destiny. When chafing Carlo Sforza last week showed Cordell Hull an urgent summons from the Italian underground, the Secretary of State gave permission for the trip home. Said Cordell Hull: "I see, your moral duty is to go. We will be glad if you do. But, of course, you go as a private citizen, without any mission, at your own risk...
Good Neighbor necessities changed Cordell Hull's tune on expropriation. By 1941, the U.S. had to make a face-saving deal to wash out the rest of its oil mess at a payment by Mexico of $24,000,000 plus interest-a metaphysical figure arrived at by a joint two-man commission of experts.* Last week the State Department announced that Mexico, now fat with U.S. dollars, had made final arrangements to settle its debt in full. With the final annual payment in September 1947, Mexico will own all U.S. oil properties outright for a total...
Aging Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who, as the winner of the celebrated Jones-Wallace fight (TIME, July 26), had arrogated most of these powers to himself, has now lost them again. But he seemed satisfied: friends reported that he wanted to keep State a strictly diplomatic agency...
...clear away the underbrush, the three Foreign Secretaries or their understudies will meet in Moscow the second week in October and no questions barred. This week it was definite that Viacheslav Molotov and Anthony Eden would be on hand, probable that 72-year-old Cordell Hull would decide to make the long flight. The talks would be not a week too soon...