Word: humphrey
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Back home the misguided tour stirred up most editorialists and most vocal politicos. "They have played into the hands of the Kremlin propagandists," said Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey. "They have fallen for a come-on gimmick," added Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield. "My remedy," Vermont's liberal Republican Senator George D. Aiken summed up, "would be a good spanking for every one of them...
Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey...
...retiring Cabinet member may keep a simple but substantial souvenir: the black leather, brass-fitted armchair that he uses at Cabinet meetings during his tour in office. For Dwight Eisenhower, the presentation of a black leather chair last week to his good friend, retiring Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey, symbolized the beginning breakup of the first Administration "old gang'' and the pressing, painful process of putting together a younger team for the rest of the second Administration...
...final official farewell gesture, the President honored Humphrey with a black-tie White House stag dinner, attended by the Cabinet and other top Government leaders, e.g., Vice President Nixon, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. Later, Treasury officials put up the cost of a new black leather chair ($116.50) for Humphrey's hand-picked successor, Lawyer-Financier Robert Anderson, 47, onetime (1954-55) Deputy Defense Secretary. The next black-chair souvenir, Washington suspected, will go to another businessman turned Administration stalwart, outgoing, outspoken Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson-as soon as the Administration can find a good and willing...
...Called Peter and Battle Hymn, but it was the Roman collar that looked best on Bing Crosby, Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien-not to mention Barry Fitzgerald, Van Johnson, Paul Douglas, Gregory Peck, Charles Boyer, Montgomery Clift, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Karl Maiden, and even Humphrey Bogart and Frank Sinatra. All this adds up to vulgar exploitation of the Roman Catholic Church, says Film Critic Robert Brizzolara of The Voice of St. Jude, national magazine of the Claretian Missionary Fathers. With a few exceptions, he writes in the current issue, the formula is classic: "Take priest...