Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What a disappointment! At first glance I thought it was George Humphrey trimming the budget...
...Washington lawmakers and officials report an extraordinary tide of budget-criticizing mail. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey still gets sackfuls of letters applauding his furor-stirring prediction that continued high taxes would eventually bring on a hair-curling depression (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges has been getting 50 cut-that-budget letters a day-"a surprising volume," he says. Observed a Bridges aide after studying the boss's mail: "The public complacency of recent years about Government spending has definitely worn...
After the procession was over, the dance floor looked and sounded like dockside when the shrimp boats come in: the U.S. Navy's top dog, Admiral Arleigh Burke, resplendent in dress uniform, hopped and dipped in a modified hornpipe; Minnesota's eupeptic Senator Hubert Humphrey, in white tie and tails, exulted in his triumph as a handsome hit, allowed as how he had it over Florida's George Smathers and Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, the two acknowledged best-looking men in the Senate. George Smathers scarcely missed a dance, raced to and fro between his table...
...bureau was delighted, although Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's office declined to go so far as to make RWBCLYIOU an official song. Nevertheless, one TV station played the song, and soon hundreds of amateur poets peppered the IRS with lively comments and suggestions. Sample, from a Joplin (Mo.) chiropractor and amateur musician, who wrote a lament to Tax Form 1040 (The One-O-Four-0 Blues) : "I fear that I'll be tardy/ In completing Form Ten Forty...
...were caused by such worries as lower earnings by some companies, a slowing-down in some industries, tight money and rumors of hard days in the aircraft industry (see below). There was more agreement on one of the reasons for the upsurge-a cheery report by Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, who last month muttered glumly about a "hair-curling depression." Humphrey now gave a further reading: "There are no signs of recession. If someone said to me, 'Do you see signs that we are in for trouble? Do you think business and the volume of activity will greatly decline...