Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That same night, the Administration again exerted behind-the-scenes pressure. Mitchell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey quietly telephoned their personal friends among steel company presidents to urge the steelmakers to be more flexible. Mitchell also sent word to McDonald that running off on a speaking tour would not make a compromise any easier...
...signing of the Declaration of Panama, he was beset by the most wildly cheering throng he had ever experienced, finally arrived at his destination-a short three miles away-in 32 minutes. Before leaving for Panama last week, the President: ¶ Conferred with Treasury's George Humphrey, Commerce's Sinclair Weeks, Labor's James Mitchell, Economist Arthur Burns and Federal Mediator Joseph Finnegan on the steel strike, expressed concern over the delay in settlement (though he stuck to his decision to stay out of the case); at week's end steel and union scheduled new negotiations...
...Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, Indiana's William Jenner-for having associated with "questionable" characters, praised by Oklahoma's Mike Monroney as an "outstanding advocate of democracy." Ike's four other nominees-California's Bill Knowland, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Red Cross President Ellsworth Bunker were approved unanimously...
...gathered in a room in Chicago's Conrad Hilton Hotel one day last week to choose the convention keynoter. To begin with, there were polite mentions of 17 possible candidates for the job. but soon the selection narrowed down to three: Minnesota's Fair-Dealing Senator Hubert Humphrey, Oklahoma's stem-winding Senator Bob Kerr (keynoter in 1944). Tennessee's Frank Clement, 36, youngest governor...
...were strong for Oilman Kerr, but because he had fought too hard for the natural-gas bill, roundly vetoed by the President (TIME, Jan. 30. et seq.), it was decided that Kerr was not the man for this year. Nor could the committee quite agree that the quick-tongued Humphrey should have center stage so early in the convention; he was too outspoken on civil rights, too vociferously in favor of Adlai Stevenson...