Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Behind the plans lie the implicit promise that the policymakers do not intend to let things get worse. But behind the promise lies the persistent hope of the President's economic advisers -backed up, according to persistent report, by the long-distance voice of ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey-that the economy is really healthier than it looks and should begin to get well...
...said flatly that, in this case, "the maximum distance" was 250 miles. But the Disarmament Subcommittee, chaired by Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, found out from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey that its seismographs picked up tremors as far away as Alaska. Prodded by the subcommittee, the AEC corrected itself, announced that the explosion was detected at College, Alaska, 2,300 miles from the blast site...
...firmly opposes any test-suspension agreement on the ground that the Russians would cheat, and influential Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller supports Strauss by insisting that they technically could cheat, the 2,050-mile mistake caused a flurry of accusations that the AEC had been doing some cheating itself. Hubert Humphrey all but accused Strauss & Co. of deliberately twisting truth. Asked the Strauss-baiting Washington Post and Times Herald: "Has the AEC been bending the scientific facts to suit a preconceived position...
...written reply to Minnesota's Humphrey, Libby assured him that the Atomic Energy Commission's mistake was "entirely inadvertent." After questioning AEC officials, Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee issued a bipartisan verdict of acquittal. Declared North Carolina's Committee Chairman Carl Durham: AEC made an "honest error...
...hearings on the highway bill and clear it for Senate consideration by this week. Lyndon Johnson left his office at a lope, looked in at a meeting of the Armed Services Committee, trotted back to his office, gulped down a cup of hot bouillon, greeted Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey for a discussion about farm supports...