Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...added that, contrary to the belief of Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey, confidence in the economy cannot "be lost in a day. The idea that candor would imperil economic stability is, almost certainly, ill conceived, if the economy were vulnerable to words, it would have succumbed ages...
...than $50 million. Instead, the delayed taxes are well on their way to reducing receipts anywhere from $300 million to $1 billion. The fact that the provisions do not eliminate eventual tax payments, but merely postpone them, was cold comfort to Treasury's embattled budget balancers. Secretary George Humphrey admitted that the changes were a "serious mistake," asked Congress to plug the leaks...
...tung government would have adverse consequences. Communist China has been several times branded an aggressor, and it might weaken U.N. prestige to make this condemned power the only permanent Asian representative on the Security Council, and thus in a sense the leader of Asian opinion. Senator Hubert Humphrey has recommended that the Security Council seat should be given to India, when the U.N. Charter comes up for revision in late June, as a more realistic appraisal of representative Asian opinion...
Fulbright was stunned. "Do you think we should discontinue these hearings?" he asked. Said Humphrey: "I do not think I would care to advise this committee on what its functions are and what it should do." New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives wanted to know if Humphrey had heard "anything today about" a stockmarket crash. Said the Secretary: only "in the hearings of this committee...
...Humphrey was joined by Indiana's Republican Homer Capehart, who had been needling Fulbright from the beginning. Said Capehart: "The series of questions that we have had in this committee have all tended to be on the negative side, [and have tended] to prove that stock prices are too high and that maybe we are just a few steps behind a crash such as we had in 1929." Said Fulbright: "It is very inappropriate to engage in bickering with you before this audience." Replied Capehart: "You started it ... You . . . stick to your knitting and ask [your] questions." Fulbright flushed...