Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with each bimonthly issue, printed on cheap paper and crammed with splashy pictures, Confidential's sale has grown even faster than its journalistic reputation has fallen. It has also spawned a dozen guttery imitators, e.g., Hush Hush, The Lowdown, Exposed, Uncensored, On the Q.T. In Hollywood Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart reports that "everybody reads it, but they say the cook brought it into the house." In Chicago a society matron summed up the simultaneous appall and appeal that she feels for the magazine: "I've read it from cover to cover, and I think it ought to be thrown...
...domestic economic matters, Eisen hower is much more dependent on his advisers. He has great confidence in Economic Adviser Arthur Burns and Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. He gave to Humphrey a general directive to hold down Government expenditures. Obeying it, Humphrey often finds him self in conflict with other department heads; Washington gagsters call Humphrey "Secretary of Everything." But Humphrey's function, long missed in Washington, is the essential one of imposing outside limits on Government activities, limits which force operating depart ments to relearn that economy is the parent of effectiveness. Humphrey and the President have...
George Magoffin Humphrey, Secretary of the. Treasury . . . . . . . . LL.D...
...CARL B. HUMPHREY...
...gave six U.S. musclemen of assorted sizes a chance to flex their biceps for a friendly and admiring audience. Appropriately enough, it was Heavyweight Paul Anderson who made the biggest hit. The 22-year-old titan from Toccoa. Ga. looked for all the world like a living caricature of Humphrey Pennyworth, the comic-strip strongman. Here in the flesh was the giant of a capitalist fairy tale. Almost as wide as he is high (5 ft. 10 in., 340 Ibs.), Anderson toyed with the big bar bells and set two world records in the process. "We rarely have such weights...