Word: humphrey
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Next day another kind of nonsense cropped up. To support the security action against Ladejinsky. another Agriculture Department official showed reporters a letter from a White Russian refugee named George Vitt, noting that "a goodly share of [Russian] revolutionaries were found among the Russian Jews." Senator Hubert Humphrey promptly called for action "at the White House level" to reinstate Ladejinsky; other Democrats talked of a congressional investigation. The Agriculture Department quickly denied that "antiSemitism played any part in the Ladejinsky case." Refugee Vitt said that some of his best friends were Jews, and that the DOA had violated its promise...
...time to ponder U.S. policy toward Latin America. From the holiday White House came news of three significant plans. ¶ Next week, in his Foreign Economic Policy Message, the President will ask Congress to establish the International Finance Corp. (TIME, Nov. 22) promised by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at November's economic conference in Rio. Proposed as a $100 million supplement to the World Bank, IFC would lend to private enterprisers rather than governments. The President will also ask Congress to lighten taxation on U.S. firms doing business in Latin America, thus encouraging more investment there...
...progressed, the Government skillfully used its economic tools, one by one, to turn the tide. Defense spending, as expected, dropped by $8 billion, to a rate of $44 billion a year. But the Administration countered the drop with tax cuts that amounted to $7.4 billion. Said Treasury Secretary George Humphrey: "Some people have called this a recession...
Sabrina. The boss's sons (Humphrey Bogart, William Holden) and the chauffeur's daughter (Audrey Hepburn) are at it again, but thanks to Director Billy Wilder, not all the bloom is off this faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...
...expressed its intention of assisting Huang after receiving a letter from the Harvard Liberal Union explaining his case, and arranged a meeting with Huang and HLU secretary Richard W. Comegys '57 and treasurer Humphrey J. Fisher '55 in Washington on Dec. 29, Philippe Villers '55, HLU president, said last night...