Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe alumnae, actresses Josephine Hull and Dorothy Sands, are also members of the group...
...emotion: "There is fighting around the door. The general has ordered me to destroy this equipment. Say hello to Paris for me. Au revoir." Then silence. At GHQ, staff officers, generals, signalmen and clerks were leaden with a dread despair. "It was like hearing the tap on the hull of a submarine that lies helpless at the bottom of the sea," said one who listened...
Secretary of State Hull: "His is distinctly a one-track mind...
...acknowledgment, the U.S. formally billed Guatemala for United Fruit's full claim. It was the biggest claim presented to any foreign government on behalf of a private U.S. firm since the Mexican oil expropriation of 1938. Following the principle established then by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the U.S. insisted that, though sovereign governments have the right to expropriate property, the compensation paid must be "adequate, effective and prompt." As in the Mexican case, the U.S. might accept some smaller compromise sum as "adequate." But now, as then, it had served notice that it was acting for U.S. citizens...
Died. Saburo Kurusu, 68, onetime Japanese "peace" envoy to the U.S. (1941) who, with Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, was "negotiating with Secretary of State Cordell Hull when Japan struck Pearl Harbor; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo. Three weeks before war came, he arrived in Washington to settle growing U.S.-Japanese differences. On Pearl Harbor day, Nomura handed his country's last insolent note to Secretary Hull, waited silently as Hull replied: "I have never seen a document . . . more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions . . ." Shipped home, Kurusu contributed little to Japan's war effort, was never indicted...