Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appeal for governmental conference, Hoover repeated Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey's recent forecast that big federal budgets, if long continued, will produce "a depression that will curl your hair...
...Magnificent!" cried Minnesota's religiously Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey-referring without qualification to the inaugural speech just delivered by a President of the opposite political faith. Humphrey was not alone in his estimation of Dwight Eisenhower's speech (TIME, Jan. 28); rarely before in U.S. political history had the ideals and ideas of one man struck so responsive a chord among politicians, pundits and just plain people of generally divergent opinions...
George Magoffin Humphrey, 66, in four years as Secretary of the Treasury not only has shaped the grand design of Eisenhower economic policy, but is now the unquestioned strong man of the Cabinet, and one of Ike's closest advisers. Hurnphrey sees the President frequently, talks to him more frequently by telephone. Ike likes Humphrey's blunt honesty and his ability to make decisions in any field. When Secretary Dulles was stricken in the midst of the Suez crisis, the President instinctively turned to Humphrey for counsel, and Ike's own confidence in Humphrey radiates through...
...Humphrey is in for a lively second term. As a businessman (ex-President of Cleveland's far-flung M. A. Hanna Co.), he stands for a minimum of government control and for taxes low enough to encourage broad investment opportunities and individual initiative. By now he has come to recognize the high stakes and high cost involved in cold war, is willing to postpone tax cuts and settle for a balanced (if bigger) national budget and a fiscal policy that keeps a tight checkrein on inflation. Nonetheless it is plain that Humphrey is not happy with the course...
Other signers of the letter include: Van Wyck Brooks, Paul H. Douglas, Hubert H. Humphrey, Irving M. Ives, Theodore R. McKeldin, George Meany, Charles Munch, G. Bromley Oxnam, D.D., Abba Hillel Silver...