Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prospects for the defense budget were improved during the week. President Eisenhower continued to take active leadership in the fight. As rarely before during the budget fracas, his Administration was marching in step. Even if it had been deliberately timed, the announcement of the resignation of Treasury Secretary George Humphrey (see below), who had gotten out of step with his hair-curling-depression remarks, could hardly have been more pointed. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, an economic conservative by birth, instinct and training, stepped to the firing line with a denunciation of "budget butchers, whose latest proposals go far beyond sound...
...other than the President himself symbolized the first Eisenhower Administration, it was marble-cool, granite-solid Treasury Secretary George Magoffin Humphrey. He was Dwight Eisenhower's closest Cabinet friend, the President's most trusted adviser in domestic affairs, the architect of a fiscal policy that helped bring record-breaking prosperity in peacetime. Months ago, George Humphrey telegraphed his intention to return to private business at the end of the 85th Congress (TIME, Feb. 11). The announcement last week of his resignation was therefore no surprise. But it was a highly significant landmark: it was in a strong sense...
...week before was needling Eisenhower at every opportunity. Said the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, Montana's Mike Mansfield: "For the first time in years the foreign-aid program has been presented in a form that looks manage able and salable." Minnesota's Fair-Dealing Hubert Humphrey was "delighted" with the message. House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who had brushed off Ike's State of the Union message last January as "one of those kind-of-usual things") called it "great," volunteered that he was going to back "a very generous appropriation" for foreign aid. Indiana Republican...
...also editor of U.S. News & World Report, roundly condemns the ''supposedly alert press" for the misinformation and "emotional antipathy to high taxes" that have stirred budget "hysteria." In the budget debate's first round, said Lawrence, the press generally misinterpreted or overplayed Treasury Secretary Humphrey's celebrated press conference warning of a depression "that will curl your hair" unless the 1958 budget were drastically reduced. Columnist Lawrence, after studying the press conference transcript, pointed out that too many news stories had failed to bring out that Humphrey was referring not to the current budget...
...Humphrey W. Buckler III '57 Manager...