Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President at the same time voiced complete agreement with Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey, who said last January that unless the "terrific tax take" is reduced this country will have "a depression that will curl your hair...
Perhaps because it came the week after the income-tax deadline and in the still-blazing afterglow of the Humphrey flap over federal spending, the Federal Government's latest report on another rise in the cost of living curled the hair of many a U.S. businessman and wage earner last week...
What Senator O'Mahoney did not mention was that Aramco's 1950 tax arrangement with Saudi Arabia was later approved by the U.S. Treasury Department, bossed by Dwight Eisenhower's friend, George Magoffin Humphrey. Regardless of the merits of the arrangement, the department evidently felt that it was in the best interests of the U.S. to have Aramco sitting on one of the world's most strategic-oil areas-even if it meant sacrificing some revenue...
...Thomas E. Millsop, 58, his protege, a former riveter who talked Weir into giving him a selling job, three years ago became National Steel's president. For the job of chairman, soon to be named, Washington rumor suggested the name of about-to-resign Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), once chairman of National's executive committee. ¶ Kenneth C. Brownell, 54, moved up from president to board chairman and chief executive officer of American Smelting & Refining Co., succeeding Roger W. Straus, 65, Eisenhower Republican and founder of the National Conference of Christians and Jews...
Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman is still marvelous, at the Brattle. The Light Brigade arrives Sunday. Lust for Life lives up to its title at the UT. Through Saturday. In Town, The Bachelor Party is realism, if you like that sort of stuff. At the Kenmore, shows at 6:24 p.m., 8:12 p.m., and 10 p.m. Around the World in 80 Days is Michael Todd's. The seats are reserved and the Saxon...