Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skillful administrator. Power-jealous Cordell Hull has been bringing more & more under State Department control the many agencies that deal with foreign countries. Last week even Foreign Food Administrator Herbert Lehman, who has been mumbling resignation, gave...
...able policy maker. Presumably Cordell Hull never again wants an Under Secretary such as Welles, But the State Department is under heavy fire from U.S. citizens who believe that the management of U.S. affairs is bumbling, foolishly snooty toward liberal elements, unnecessarily solicitous of Fascists, insufficiently cooperative with the Russians and the Chinese. The sacking of Welles made him the darling of Hull's "liberal" enemies-a good deal more of a darling than perhaps he ought to be on his past record. To replace Welles with an Under Secretary whose main virtue is that he is a Hull...
...Answer. Replied Cordell Hull, in words as polished and as cutting as a razor...
...destiny by following his Foreign Minister's course, leaving the way open for the rupturists to form a Government which would immediately break with the Axis powers, line up the country with the United Nations. Or he could save Argentina's pride & prejudice by figuratively telling Hull to go to hell and opening his arms to anti-rupturists extremists. That is what...
...crew of the helpless R.A.F. plane saw the Roma quiver, rise slightly in the water, belch smoke from her 'midships superstructure. By good aiming and luck, the bomb had touched off a powder magazine. The forward turrets with their six 15-in. guns nodded and crumpled. The hull broke, made a great V. Twenty-one minutes after the bomb hit the Roma, she sank. She was the first battleship ever sunk at sea by bombing alone...