Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mills report blunted the politicking efforts by Senate Finance Committee Democrats-especially Oklahoma's Democratic Oilman-Senator Robert S. Kerr-to brand the tight-money policy as a national calamity. In questioning Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey on Capitol Hill last week, Kerr nagged and niggled for three days without denting Humphrey's basic defense. The Secretary admitted that tight money had pained some borrowers and would-be borrowers. He also admitted that high interest rates had upped the cost of carrying the national debt. But he would not be swerved from his (and the Mills reports...
Noting that business expansion slacked off and raw materials shortages eased during the first half of 1957, Humphrey ventured that inflation might ease during the year's second half. But before week's end, the day after the President appealed for "statesmanlike action," Pittsburgh's giant U.S. Steel Corp. announced inflationary price boosts averaging $6 a ton (see BUSINESS). To halt the price index's upward creep, Washington was going to need some help from Pittsburgh (Pa.)-as well as Mexico...
...with Elizabeth Hardwick as moderator, Newton Arvin, Saul Bellow, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Denber Lindly. "Dear Liar," the letters of George Bernard Shaw, has been scheduled for Wednesday, July 31, at Kresge Auditorium at 8:30 p.m., to be read by Jerome Kilty and Cavada Humphrey...
...performances of a program by Jose Limon and the 13 other members of his dance company were offered. With choreography by Doris Humphrey, "Variations and Conclusion From New Dance" proved visually striking with contrasting blue and orange costumes. Wallingford Riegger's music was neurotic and neomodal, and a bit static harmonically. "Ritmo Jondo," based on songs and dances of Spanish gypsies, suffered only from ragged strings in the orchestra...
When will inflationary pressures ease? Reserve's Martin did not give an opinion, but both Budget Director Percival Brundage and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey testified that Government spending, a prime inflationary factor, is on the increase, largely for defense. The new spending will trim the fiscal 1957 budget surplus to $1.2 billion instead of the predicted $1.7 billion. Next twelvemonth the Government may spend even more, possibly as much as $1.5 billion more than the estimated $71.8 billion budget. What all this means is that despite pleas from every quarter the U.S. cannot even consider a tax cut this...