Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humphrey's Hour...
...former student at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., where I had Hubert Humphrey as a professor of political science, it was no surprise to me that his "lesson" to Nikita Khrushchev should have lasted eight hours. Many times his classes (1943-45) would run beyond the end-of-the-class bell-sometimes through the dinner hour and into the evening. He was a stimulating teacher, and he would be an excellent choice for President...
...bother him. He feels, and with good reason, that the Administration has not sufficiently lived up to its repeated campaign promise of a balanced budget. Its record on that score now stands at two wins and four losses, but as more than one critic pointed out, if George Humphrey could not cut down government spending...
Togged up like a leftover from Hans Brinker, oracular Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey relaxed in triumph after his headline-grabbing junket...
HOME FROM THE HILL, by William Humphrey. A carefully written story of a young man who bitterly discovers the dead rot at the heart of his parents' lives. The book offers a tense evocation of small-town Texas life and a sense of personal tragedy that borders on myth. Faulkner without the undergrowth...