Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the budget may get speedy approval, now that Treasury Secretary Humphrey has departed. The only blocks to its quick passage would be a seemingly inadequate defense appropriation or a failure to care for the social legislation endorsed by the Senate Democrats...
...butter, 89,000 tons of cheese. But politicos from dairy-farm states predictably joined Republican Burdick in bipartisan booing at Benson's announcement. ''A shocking injustice!" cried Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire. "A mistake!" snapped Vermont Republican George Aiken, an old Benson defender. Said Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey: "Mr. Benson has taken the place of Scrooge...
Said Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson in an unmistakable turnabout from his predecessor George Humphrey: "Maintaining a balanced budget is of great importance to our national welfare and so also is keeping our expenditures within reasonable and prudent limits. But we cannot adhere to absolute rigidity . . . And I want to make it quite clear that we at the Treasury are never going to take any positions which are inimical to the defense of our country...
...Onetime Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel, has popped up both at the White House in Washington and at Augusta, Ga. to repeat the same kind of talk that launched the disastrous Humphrey budget flap of last spring. Humphrey is urging the President to increase military expenditures, cut taxes, balance the budget, accomplish all these by limiting such "junk" items as foreign aid, health and welfare, farm subsidies and veterans' benefits. Humphrey's frequent visits are beginning to wear on White House aides. Cracked one Ike assistant to Humphrey: "Who's going...
...picture is based on the late Humphrey Cobb's novel, a bestseller in 1935 and one of the most powerful antimilitaristic tracts inspired by World War I. The story tells what happened before, during and after an attack by a French regiment on the Western Front. The attack was suggested by the corps commander (Adolphe Menjou) merely as a means of fortifying his personal reputation. It was ordered by the division commander (George Macready). mostly out of vanity and the desire to ingratiate. The attack was impossible from the start, and it failed disastrously-one whole company, for instance...