Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey paused on the Senate floor last week to deliver a hearty poke at the ribs of a fellow Democratic presidential possible, Massachusetts' John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Said Hubert: "Hello, Jack. What's this I hear? Have you been cutting me up again?" Replied Kennedy with a smile: "Not me, Hubert. Why, just last night I told a group that you would make an excellent President-but you could never be elected." Grinned Hubert: "You bastard...
Blasted daily by million-volt X rays aimed at the cancer in his abdomen, John Foster Dulles started his third week in Walter Reed Army Hospital thoughtfully reading the newspapers. The uncheering news: Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey had joined Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington in demanding that he resign as Secretary of State. Suddenly, in walked the President of the U.S., three gift books under his arm, and on his face a look of thoughtful concern. From then on, Dulles' week began to look...
...note to the hospital every couple of days, tried again to squelch the chatter about retiring Dulles. To G.O.P. congressional leaders, meeting at the White House, he passed the word in firm tones: "It is my responsibility." In press conference he praised Senators who (unlike Symington and Humphrey) "have expressed very prayerfully their great hope that he will be spared to go on with his work." By week's end Eisenhower's plain words had wiped out any excuses for confusion: Dulles would not retire unless he declared himself physically unfit...
...freestyle--won by Marglin (H); 2. Humphrey (Y); 3. Hayden (H). Time--23.4. Dive--won by Childs (Y); 2. Gleason (H); 3. Alquire (Y). Points--62.32. 200-yd. butterfly--won by Elizalde (H); 2. Bary (Y); 3. Coffman (H). Time--2:16.4. 100-yd. freestyle--won by Eisenbrey (H); 2. Zentgraf; 3. McMaster (Y). Time--51.7. 200-yd. backstroke--won by Kaufmann (H); 2. Cunningham (Y); 3. Boni (Y). Time--2:13.3. (new Harvard University record, old record of 2:14.3 set in 1953 by D.J. Mulvey...
...industry still had some slack left, but it was not enough to feel really comfortable, and steelmen were thinking of expanding once again. National Steel Corp. Chairman George Magoffm Humphrey and President Thomas E. Millsop announced that they will build the industry's biggest new finishing plant since U.S. Steel Corp. put up the $500 million Fairless Works (TIME...