Word: hulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great editor. His unruly staff, over whom he never exercised the full powers of an editor, had one common admiration-Croly. Through the New Republic's respectable but rundown portals passed some of the most incongruous people in the world: Greenwich Village poets, workers from Chicago's Hull House, old-style Caribbean revolutionaries, retired burglars, Messianic booksellers, musicians from Wall Street, bearded atheists, Nicodemus-like lawyers, authors from Idaho, Junior Leaguers and Bryn Mawr graduates-all manner of odd types, irreconcilables, extravagants, visionaries and practical reformers who somehow were attracted by Founder Herbert Croly...
...undergraduate group began its activity last Spring with strong endorsements from President Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, and a host of public figures, Meeting in New Orleans in April, the Associated Harvard Clubs proposed a graduate committee to ralse funds for the project...
Then there was this affair about changing some U. S. ships to Panama registry so they could sail into war zones. Vag had just about made up his mind that this was hedging, and exactly the wrong thing to do to stay out of war. After all, Mr. Hull thought so too. But again, the President quickly made the statement that the matter had no bearing on our neutrality. What to believe...
...called the case a U. S. diplomatic victory. There could scarcely be a victory over such a problem; the outcome appeared rather to be an instance in which a simple demand for candor, and an insistence on simple humanitarian considerations, exercised an astonishing force. In Washington Secretary of State Hull issued a stinging resume of the case that listed contradictions in Russia's position, reiterated the U. S. claim that the ship be returned, and sounded the democratic note again by concluding: "Each person can judge for himself . . . how much light is shed on this entire transaction...
...tugboat captain, tossed $5,000 into the pot and founded the shipping firm of Moore & McCormack (now Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc.). Two years later the shoestring firm bought its first ship for $90,000 (cash: $15,000), christened it the Moormack, put $185,000 worth of repairs into its hull and went after business. From that time on the history of Moore-McCormack is the history of most of today's U. S. merchant marine...