Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China coast, set on a metal tripod. The mainland was shown in a rich chocolate color, Formosa in emerald green. There were other maps, kept well covered and guarded by military personnel when not in use. It was a tense session. Said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "I recall that there was not one smile, not one jest." It was highly secret. Near the end of the day, Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noticed a stenotypist at work. Witness Radford flushed darkly, said that if he had known any record was being made...
...Peking, British Charge d'Affaires Humphrey Trevelyan delivered a similar plea to China's Chou Enlai, who earlier in the week had said that Communist China "absolutely cannot agree to a so-called cease-fire." Now, Chou made no public reply...
Mild Dose. Things looked so good that the Treasury Department decided to try something it has not dared touch since 1953. Secretary George Humphrey announced that holders of $2.6 billion worth of 2⅞ bonds maturing next month will have the choice of exchanging them for short-term notes or a new 4O-year, 3% bond, the longest-term U.S. obligation since a 1911 issue to help finance the Panama Canal. Unlike the famed 3¼% 30-year issue of 1953, which was attacked as too drastic a credit tightener and soon fell below par, the new 40-year bond...
...Agenda: discussion of an anti-filibuster change in the Senate rules. A fight on this point would have set Northern and Southern Democrats at each other's throats at the very outset of the 1955 session. The man who killed the plan was Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, once the noisiest and most reckless of the South-baiters. Humphrey urged his friends to "abandon the devil theory of politics," i.e., to recognize their Southern colleagues as reasonable, constructive men rather than as fiends from the pit. Humphrey prevailed, and after that it was easy going for the Democrats...
...efforts" to liberate the airmen and "all other captured personnel of the U.N. command, still detained" in violation of the Korean armistice. "Our prayers go with you," said U.N. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge as the Secretary General's plane took off. In England, where he picked up Professor Humphrey Waldock, Oxford's ranking expert on international law, Dag Hammarskjold was advised by Sir Anthony Eden to stick closely to the P.W. issue and fend off all Chinese efforts to bargain for U.N. recognition. "To release these men would simply undo the latest of a series of acts...