Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spirit of Ezra Benson is certainly in this chamber tonight," gloomed Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey one night last week, as the Senate steamed through its third day of debate on the Administration's 1958 farm bill. Humphrey, longtime big farm-subsidy spender, was dead right. Benson's aides were hard at work outside the chamber feeding statistics and arguments to their rapidly growing body of supporters. Later the same night the Benson-backed bill, a promising step toward whittling down surplus-producing farm price supports, passed the Senate by a towering majority -62 for, Humphrey...
...increased by the termination this year of the Soil Bank's expensive "acreage reserve" section, under which farmers were paid for keeping acres out of corn and other cash crops. Benson himself knows that the $6 billion annual cost of the farm program, big enough to bother Hubert Humphrey, is not likely to come down very fast. But he is heartened by the fact that the new bill at least starts the program in the right direction...
...honors must go to Max Adrian, the "old, dangling" Sir Peter Teazle, and Cavada Humphrey, his young bride Lady Teazle. Adrian is a past master of timing and comic acting--a second "incomparable Max." And young as he is, he takes care to embody advanced age to the creakiest hip joint and most unyielding leg muscle, where the best make-up in the world is of no avail...
...usual, it is a joy to watch Miss Humphrey's lovely carriage and to listen to her crystal-clear diction. She knows how to say "fortyoon" instead of "fawchoon," and how to put the accent on the first syllable of "despicable," where it belongs...
When Robert B. Anderson Jr. took over as Secretary of the Treasury about a year ago, the nation's finances were-as even retiring Secretary George M. Humphrey agreed-"in a mess." The Treasury had to refinance some $75 billion (28%) of the U.S. debt within a year, and the attrition -demands for cash-in refinancing operations had been running as high as an alarming 30%. Secretary Anderson set out to lengthen the average maturity of the federal debt, which had shrunk to 57 months, thus keep the Treasury from going to the market so often. He hoped...