Word: humphrey
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What this country needs is men in Washington who will put up a better plan than Dulles or shut up until they have something constructive to say. Too bad we didn't get some statesmen when Senators Russell, Fulbright, Humphrey and Morse were elected...
Over the weekend, Corey Wynn's freshman team continued its astonishing record of not having lost a single individual match in intercollegiate competition by defeating Dartmouth Friday, 7-0. Jerry Emmet, Charlie Poletti, John Scullin, Al Vinton, Nick Lamont, Mike Humphrey, and Tim Gallwey all won handily from their last intercollegiate opposition until March 2, when they play Yale...
Saturday the freshmen second team took a surprise 5-0 decision from Andover. Humphrey, Gallwey, Al Blackmer, Denny Briggs, and Ed Vaughn were the winners for the Yardlings...
There was nothing to alarm anybody in Martin's testimony, taken by itself; like Humphrey he was just suggesting that it was time to think about the future. But at a Washington dinner given by the Citizens' Committee for the Hoover Report came a candid, grandfatherly rumble from a man whose very name has been used by Democrats for years to frighten Prosperity's babies. Warned ex-President Herbert Hoover: "Secretary Humphrey says that unless we change some of our ways, we will see 'a depression that will curl your hair.' Mine has already been...
...boom-and-bust warnings of Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey and ex-President Hoover (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) helped start a selling wave that sent the Dow-Jones industrial average tumbling 7.23 points (to 469.96) for the widest single-day break in eight months. The market rallied Wednesday, until a selling surge was set off by President Eisenhower's warning that the Government might have to impose wage and price controls. By that time not even Secretary of Commerce Weeks's prompt assurance that no controls were planned was enough to stop the downtrend. Next day the market dropped...