Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comes out ahead. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Bill Jahn, who runs monthly popularity polls that frequently draw more than 1,000 returns, tagged Jack (Dragnet) Webb and Lawrence ("Champagne Music") Welk as coming stars months before they received national recognition. The Los Angeles Mirror News Columnist Hal Humphrey's previews and criticism have caught on so fast that he is now syndicated to 51 other dailies. From readership surveys and the mail, editors invariably discover that staff-written columns are among the most faithfully read in the paper. For TV, as the San Francisco Chronicle...
Estes Kefauver said that the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee will do so. Senator Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee got ready to grill Treasury Secretary Humphrey on the boost this week, may also call steel-industry executives to testify. And incoming Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson wistfully told Congressmen: "I wish the steel increase had not taken place...
TESTIFYING before the Senate Finance Committee, George M. Humphrey made an unusual admission for an outgoing Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. The nation's finances, he agreed, were "in a mess" when he took office in 1953-and they are still in a mess. Democrats went much farther, cried loudly of a crisis at the Treasury. Reason: in the next twelve months, the Treasury must refinance some $75 billion (28%) of the U.S. debt, and do it in a market where Government bonds are at their lowest level since the Depression, and interest rates are climbing. Last week...
...defense, Secretary Humphrey points to some important achievements during his regime. The budgetary deficit was reduced, paving the way for a $7.5 billion tax cut and a balanced budget in 1956 and 1957. The Administration also claims an important victory by reducing its "floating" (i.e., callable on demand or payable within one year) debt by $25 billion since 1953, an action that helps insulate the Treasury against sudden runs on its cash supplies...
...Secretary Humphrey has failed to make much headway toward one of his primary goals in 1953; this was to stretch out and stabilize the debt by transferring much of it from short-term into long-term securities. Not only would such a transfer help combat inflation by sopping up credit, it would also make the Treasury's debt management job much simpler by cutting down on refinancing operations...