Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...full of plans, but they have yet to undergo a purification by budget. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, a hard man with a dollar and a weighty man in the Cabinet, is against any large-scale foreign spending; Banker Dodge thinks Harold Stassen's plans are dangerously dreamy. The foreign-aid enthusiasts think Humphrey and Dodge are dangerously unimaginative. But despite individual differences, the Cabinet is unanimous in its belief that the character of the cold war is changing, and that the U.S. urgently needs to reshape its foreign policy. The objective is to shift the emphasis...
...their 'noes' were said with grace," remarked a Latin American delegate to the inter-American economic conference at Rio. To the end last week, the U.S. delegation stuck amicably but steadfastly to the main line laid down at the beginning by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey: a promise of "expanded" loans from the Export-Import Bank and the World Bank, together with an urgent recommendation that the Latin nations try to attract more private U.S. capital...
...Treasury last week successfully completed the second largest refunding operation in history.* To refund $17.3 billions in Government securities due this month. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey had prepared both short-and medium-term (8 years and 8 months) 2½% securities, to appeal to private banks that dislike tying up money over long periods...
...embarrassment with masterful gamesmanship. Instead of seizing exuberantly on Fulton's statements, they soberly noted that he might not be fully informed-but they also showed a touch of sly pity for the U.S. team, thus quietly encouraging the notion that it did not represent U.S. opinion. As Humphrey flew back to the U.S.. the U.S. negotiators, humiliated and angry, buckled down to the job-now immeasurably more difficult-of holding their present position without arousing dangerous resentments among the Good Partners...
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 his faded comic ruse (TIME, Sept...