Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, George Humphrey holds a special place in the regard of Dwight Eisenhower. Since they first got to know each other well aboard the cruiser Helena returning from Korea after Ike's election, they have been close friends...
...highest opinion of Humphrey's abilities, turned instinctively to him for counsel when Secretary of State Dulles lay ill during the Suez crisis. In February, even after Humphrey had flushed out the covey of budget cutters, the President went quail hunting on Humphrey's Georgia plantation. Because Humphrey is Ike's friend and a top Cabinet figure, his hair-curling statements called for an extra-strong presidential rebuke if the U.S. was to believe that it was being taxed for an honest-weight budget. Instead, Ike decided to smooth things over, seemed almost to be agreeing with...
...Bermuda conference aboard the U.S.S. Canberra, President Eisenhower became convinced that he would have to go all-out in fighting to save such budget specifics as foreign aid and school construction. Since then, Humphrey has publicly tried to reconcile his views to Ike's, claimed that his ideas have been distorted (they have-sometimes). But, he has never adopted the stance that is expected of a Treasury Secretary: intelligent, patient defense of a budget for which he is in large part responsible...
...sense George Humphrey cannot see what the Humphrey flap is all about. He had nothing specific in mind but a low budget figure, even though he would shed no tears if such items as foreign economic aid and aid to education were cut. If he has stirred up popular misgivings about the budget that haunt every Congressman, he cannot believe that this is a disservice-and many would agree with him in principle. But the disservice haunts those fellow members of the Administration who believe that the budget is the minimum price for providing the services that an expanding...
...atmosphere and character. As for Gazzara. who made his Broadway reputation in End As a Man, A Hatful of Rain and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, this picture has already given him a Hollywood name as the most huggable heavy to come down the pike since Humphrey Bogart was young...