Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that each side got a fair break on committee assignments. To keep them together, he uses such devices as getting Georgia's conservative Richard Russell, the party's recognized farm expert, to go over a farm bill to be introduced by Minnesota's left-wing Hubert Humphrey...
...years ago: "It is the sense of the Congress that the Communist Chinese government should not be admitted to membership in the United Nations as a representative of China." The resolution passed the Senate unanimously, endorsed by the whole sweep of senatorial persuasion, from Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey to Illinois' Everett Dirksen...
After considerable backstage wheedling, Joe Martin got Dan Reed to open hearings on EPT (TIME, June 1). But the hearings last week turned out to be farcically one-sided. Treasury Secretary Humphrey, instead of fully arguing the merits of the extension, was forced to defend himself against charges of lobbying for the bill. He admitted that he and Under Secretary Marion Folsom had spoken to officials of the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (both have stuck to their stand against EPT extension). Nearly all the witnesses summoned by the committee turned out to be against...
...bald head aglow with pancake makeup. His big "cue cards," which had been brought in only after news photographers had been shooed out of the room, were ready before him. On his right sat Attorney General Herbert Brownell, on his left, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby. All but Humphrey, who wore a white shirt, were arrayed in shades of "television blue...
...River as a big buyer of ranches. A fellow of the same name was remembered as a big real-estate operator around Lake Tahoe. A good many people in Reno were familiar with a Biltz too-a stocky, blue-eyed fellow with iron-grey hair, a Hollywood jacket and Humphrey Bogart gestures who didn't seem to have anything better to do than hang around the Riverside Hotel. But since Biltz doesn't like his name in the paper (and seldom has to see it there), few connected all the Biltzes into one fabulous whole...