Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard Goldsmith '55 was named vice-president, Joseph Cooper '55 secretary, and Humphrey Fisher '55 treasurer. Other officers chosen include: Phillipe Villers '55, Political Action Chairman; Christopher Niebuhr '56, Harvard Affairs Chairman; Charles Edson '56, Membership Chairman; Anthony Beilenson '54, Public Relations Director; Lew Smith '54, Michael Jorrin '54, Gordon Graham '55, Peter Waldstein '55, members at large...
...crackerjack player, good-humored Fred Vinson has never been known to get openly riled at a partner's misplay. Another regular is Air Secretary Harold Talbott. who has a competitive spirit to match Ike's, and plays an equally smart game. Among occasional players: Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith; Banker Clifford Roberts; Newspaper Executive William E. Robinson, Bridge Master Oswald Jacoby. (Says Jacoby: "The President plays better bridge than golf; he tries to break 90 at golf; at bridge you would say he plays...
...band of liberals," led by Alabama's Hill, New Mexico's Anderson, Minnesota's Humphrey and Illinois' Douglas, had filibustered since April Fools' Day to delay voting on the majority-favored Holland bill, which would grant the seaboard states title to offshore lands within "historic" boundaries. The filibusters still insist that they are not really filibustering, and capital correspondents, who would thunder at the first sign of an old-fashioned Southern filibuster, have gone along with the game by refraining from using the word "filibuster" in their copy...
...shocked and surprised," said Bob Taft, that such fervid Democratic opponents of the filibuster as New York's Senator Herbert H. Lehman, Illinois' Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey are now obviously engaged in one. He was not shocked but was irked at Alabama's Democratic Senator Lister Hill, a veteran filibusterer. At one point, Hill, who had held the floor for three days, strolled down the aisle, clapped a hand on Taft's shoulder and called him "my sweet, good friend from Ohio, whose shining virtue is the virtue of integrity." When Hill...
...opponents of the tidelands bill petitioned Taft to set the bill aside while other issues were considered. "Ridiculous," said Taft. When the opponents pointed out that federal rent control will expire April 30 unless the Senate acts, Taft had a rejoinder that was enough to give Lehman, Humphrey, Douglas & Co. a chill on behalf of their big-city constituents. Said he: "I don't care if rent control expires...