Word: humphrey
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Taxpayer's Blessing. Byrd's confidence seemed well grounded. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, believes that RFC has long outlived its usefulness. Missouri's freshman Democratic Senator, Stuart Symington, the man who put RFC back on its feet after the mink coat and Lustron scandals of 1951 (TIME, Feb. 12, 1951 et seq.), is not expected to come to the agency's defense. Even enthusiastic RFC backers might go along in the liquidation if some other agency e.g., the Federal Reserve, were to take over the RFC function of small-business loans...
Progress Report Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey totted up the results of his first refunding job for the U.S. last week and concluded that it was a "big success." Of the $8.9 billion worth of short-term securities maturing Feb. 15, only 1½% were cashed in, the rest exchanged for new securities. But the Treasury, which is trying to get more of the national debt on a long-term basis, made little headway in that direction. Less than 7% of the maturing short-term issue was exchanged tor a new bond paying 2½% and maturing in five years...
...George Humphrey...
...Suggested reading for Secretary Humphrey, with a wink: the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. No failures in that work. And you get so much book for your money...
...after the election. Brownell (with Lucius Clay) became the chief Ike adviser on appointments. As would be expected from Brownell's character and wide knowledge, the appointments were good, but some of them were not handled with political astuteness. He let the appointments of Ohio's George Humphrey as Secretary of the Treasury and of Martin Durkin as Secretary of Labor be announced without a word of warning to Robert A. Taft, the senior Senator from Ohio and the ranking G.O.P. member of the Senate labor committee. These political sins of omission were graphically ascribed to petty resentment...