Word: hulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nuts to You." Next day in answer to this protest, not Cordell Hull, busy in Lima, but Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles received handsome Dr. Thomsen. Two days before, Dr. Thomsen had informed Mr. Welles that Germany, whose currency export restrictions have long barred the transfer of German estate funds to U. S. beneficiaries, had finally agreed that U. S. heirs would henceforth get their money in full, regardless of their race or creed. Dr. Thomsen is himself an amiable and reasonable man, and deliberate Mr. Welles is a career diplomat of frigid temper, conservative habits, impeccable speech...
...secret around Washington, however, that Joe Kennedy was in for an admonition for publicly expressing views like those that Messrs. Wilson and Phillips held in private. For Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull were irritated by Joe Kennedy's speech at the annual Trafalgar Day dinner of Britain's Navy League, praising Neville Chamberlain for the Munich deal. To Secretarv Hull's mind that excursion into British politics was as bad as if the British Ambassador to the U. S. had intervened in a scrap between Republicans and Democrats...
Immediate action on proposals of Cordell Hull and Alf M. Landon for close academic as well as political cooperation with Pan-American countries was taken last night when a committee of seven Undergraduates was formed to raise money for 15 exchange scholarships at Harvard...
...Cordell Hull and his chief's Good Neighbor Policy have notably softened Latin American distrust of the U. S., but the eve of Lima showed that they have by no means removed it. Well organized last week was opposition by the ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, Chile) and other nations to confirming at Lima the proposals for a Little League of Nations and Little World Court, which Colombia and the Dominican Republic introduced out of friendliness to the U. S. at Buenos Aires two years ago. And toward Franklin Roosevelt's program for Continental Solidarity against Fascism, Latin American...
...minded about it," he temporized. "After all, my first venture in political life as a youth was fighting the Chicago traction interests."* Some professors at the University of Chicago, the city's schoolteachers, various racial groups, the Lawyers' Guild, social workers like Miss Charlotte Carr, head of Hull House, were foremost in the draft-Ickes drive. They want to smash the celebrated Nash-Kelly machine. If New York City smashed Tammany with a Fusion ticket led by Fiorello LaGuardia, why couldn't Chicago do likewise under an old Bull-Mooser, a New Dealer, a grand-scale benefactor...