Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began in January when George Magoffin Humphrey, as one of his top aides said later, "tossed a match into the barn and sure started a fire." Treasury Secretary Humphrey's warning that high Government spending would in the long run bring on a depression "that will curl your hair" caused hair to stand on end all over the U.S. Editorial writers cried of "idiot spending," and budget figures rolled sonorously across Chamber of Commerce luncheon tables from coast to coast. Congressional mail pouches swelled; New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives totted up 2,155 budget-cutting letters...
...threw the match. To the chairman of a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee came a letter urging the Senate to restore $8,205,000 (to replace overage Coast Guard aircraft) that the House of Representatives had whittled from the Treasury Department's budget. The pleader: Treasury Secretary Humphrey himself...
...telling the Senate Finance Committee that a $2 billion to $3 billion budget cut would be "a sound thing." Next day Burgess hurried back to the witness table, cryptically called his variance with the President's views "a false alarm." Like his hair-curling boss, George M. Humphrey, the Under Secretary succeeded only in adding to the impression -valid or not-that the Administration is sharply divided on the budget...
...newsmen into Red China would amount to paying blackmail for the release of eight U.S. prisoners there. "We will not let newsmen go while [the Red Chinese] are holding our citizens illegally," Deputy Under Secretary Robert Murphy told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey pursued the point: If the question of American prisoners were not involved, would the department favor newsmen traveling to China? Murphy's reply: "I believe, on balance, the answer would...
FAST TAX WRITE-OFFS are expected to be stopped soon. Congress and Treasury Secretary Humphrey are lining up behind Senator Byrd's bill to end write-offs except for plants to produce new weapons for which present facilities are unsuitable. Byrd claims Treasury loses billions...