Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wind up its three-month investigation of steel-pricing policies, the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee last week put on the stand former Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, now chairman of National Steel Corp., the country's sixth largest steelmaker. Subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver had a thorny question waiting: Since National Steel is operating at 80% capacity v. 98% early in the year, could it not melt customer resistance, push up the operating rates and still maintain profits by cutting prices? Answered Humphrey: "That is what you think. I do not think...
...returning to private law practice. Successor: close friend and No. 1 aide, Deputy Attorney General William Pierce Rogers, who at 44 will be the youngest member of the Cabinet. It was the third major change in the Eisenhower Cabinet in three months (others: Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson for George Humphrey, Defense Secretary Neil McElroy for Charles Wilson) and brought the average Cabinet age down from...
Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey denounced the Administration's "pseudo optimism," proposed a special agency for coordinating U.S. scientific and technical programs (Michigan's G.O.P. Senator Charles Potter went Humphrey one better, urged a Cabinet-level Scientific Progress Agency). Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington demanded a special session of Congress, criticized the President for being "paternalistically vague...
...niggers with common-law wives and passels of little black bastards." Back home in Georgia, an A.R.F. cofounder, pudgy, rednecked Politico Roy Harris, was equally frank. Vowed Harris, often called the "kingmaker" of Georgia politics: "We're goin' to buy the houses next door to Hubert Humphrey and Dick Nixon and get us the biggest nigger families we can find to send up and move in. We're goin' to see just how these civil righters perform when the problem is across the street or next door...
...seclusion since the death last January of Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart, his widow, Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, was stepping out with an old family friend, Cinemactor Frank Sinatra. Lauren was recently draped on Frankie's arm for the Las Vegas premiere of his new movie The Joker Is Wild, last week went along with him to a closed-circuit telecast of the Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio fight in a Hollywood theater from which they emerged looking as happy as if they had bet on Winner Basilio. But though Hollywood gossips buzzed, both Lauren and Frankie denied a wedding...