Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balanced budget, result of a determined, top-to-bottom Administration drive, calls for expenditures of $77 billion. That is $5.2 billion more than the amount that, in 1957, moved then-Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey to warn of "a depression that will curl your hair." And it is $3.1 billion more than the President's original budget for the current fiscal year, in which the U.S. is running a gaudy $12.9 billion into the red. In its modest surplus, the 1960 budget picks up the pre-Sputnik, pre-recession trend of Eisenhower budgets...
...method was part of Russia's newest device -the soft sell that began last year with the assignment of Ambassador Mikhail ("Smiling Mike") Menshikov to Washington, polished thereafter with headline-catching informal talks between newly ingratiating Nikita Khrushchev and such prominent U.S. callers as Adlai Stevenson and Hubert Humphrey...
Caviar, pheasant and brandy were a cheap feast for the valuable service Senator Humphrey rendered to Khrushchev by conveying eight hours' propaganda, boasts and threats to the U.S. and the world...
...outset, they move that the Senate adopt rules for the 1959 session, as it would plainly have to do if it were not a continuing body. New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey and Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul Douglas last week presented a brief to the Senate's presiding officer, Vice President Richard Nixon, making the liberal case that the Senate is not a continuing body. Basis of their argument: The Constitution provides that "each House may determine the rules...
Died. Doris Humphrey, 63, Illinois-born, Denishawn-trained dancer, teacher and choreographer, who with Charles Weidman formed her own school and company in 1928 (opening what New York Times Critic John Martin soon called "a new chapter in American dancing"), creator of such modern dance masterpieces as The Shakers, With My Red Fires and (for Jose Limon) Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her active career was stopped by crippling arthritis in 1945, but Doris Humphrey went on teaching, organized the Juilliard Dance Theater in 1954. After ten years of preparation, Doris Humphrey's Guggenheim-financed...