Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came in for tea and some serious talk. Dutch Foreign Minister J.M.A.H. Luns had a lengthy discussion of European defense. NATO Secretary Lord Ismay was the honor guest at the Eisenhowers' first full-blown state dinner. South Korean Foreign Minister Yong Tae Pyun called, and General John E. Hull, vice chief of staff, departing on an important special mission to Egypt, dropped in at the White House for final instructions...
...land-reform decisions. The last four supreme-court justices who ruled in favor of a landholder were thrown out and replaced by stooges of the Red-tinged government; thus the company appeal seems doomed. United Fruit may then peg its hopes on a statement of principle enunciated by Cordell Hull after Mexico expropriated U.S. oil companies in 1938. Secretary of State Hull conceded that a government had the right to expropriate property, but insisted that compensation must be "adequate, effective and prompt."* By depositing bonds of doubtful worth to United Fruit's account in the National Treasury. Guatemala seems...
...Franklin Roosevelt's day, Dunn became a special assistant to, and croquet-playing friend of Secretary of State Hull. During the Spanish Civil War, as Hull's respected political adviser in European affairs, he was a powerful influence in holding U.S. policy to an embargo on arms for both sides in Spain-to the chagrin of the U.S. left wing. Secretary of State Stettinius appointed him Assistant Secretary in 1944, and he was started on his ambassadorial round-to Italy...
...suggest that a plan which horrified Secretary Hull and Secretary Stimson and Secretary Byrnes, found a supporter in Mr. Conant," Flynn said, "and I submit in all fairness that if our purpose now is to rekindle the bonds of understanding between the German people and ourselves . . . and the Western World the last man to send to Germany to carry out that mission is the man who was probably the first eminent figure in the educational and intellectual world to publicly support...
...Everglasting and Kristal Kraft kits for owners who want to apply glass-fiber coatings to their own boat bottoms. Though the cost of coating a 16-ft. hull (roughly 40? per square foot) may run as high as $50, the companies say one coating is sufficient, leaves boats with a leakproof bottom that defies such things as fungus, barnacles and dry rot in fresh and salt waters...