Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humphrey J. Fisher '55 has been awarded the John Osborne Sergeant prize for the best metrical transmissions of a lyric poem of Korea. The announcement of the $200 award was made by Sergent Kennedy '25, secretary of the faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...winding driveway, through grounds bursting with redbud and dogwood, to the great white Shenandoah Valley mansion of Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, drove some distinguished visitors, among them Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Democratic Senators Lyndon Johnson and Walter George, and Republican Senator Eugene Millikin. They met in the second-floor room that Byrd uses as his home office. From the meeting came a decision to strive for a compromise that might save President Eisenhower's liberalized foreign-trade bill-still under discussion in Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee-from being ruined by crippling amendments...
Getting in his kick, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, one of the backers of the 1952 loyalty oath, snapped that there will be no room at the 1956 convention for "half-Democrats or phony Democrats." Alabama's Senator John Sparkman, the 1952 nominee for Vice President, jumped in with both feet. "I don't think they have any place in a Democratic Convention until they come back and say they are sorry...
...Southern moderate, he is on the friendliest terms with the Northern liberals, e.g., he wangled a place on the U.S. delegation to the SEATO conference for his protege, Montana's able Senator Mike Mansfield, and he offered to campaign last year for Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey (who gratefully declined because he wanted a Minnesotans-only campaign...
...inter-American economic conference in Rio last year, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey promised the free nations of the world that the Eisenhower Administration would back the idea of a sort of international RFC to lend to private enterprise abroad (TIME. Nov. 22). Last week the U.S. made good its promise. World Bank President Eugene Black proposed that an International Finance Corp. be chartered with $100 million in capital, membership of the 56 nations "that belong to the World Bank. Principal customers will be businessmen in underdeveloped countries who need capital but object to the meddling that comes with government-guaranteed...