Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats were quick to jump into the debate. Tennessee's Estes Kefauver took the Senate floor to complain that the Nixon-Dulles policies may "drive India and the other nations of Asia who follow her lead into more open friendship with the Soviet system." Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey suggested that Nixon, in sounding off about Nehru in Karachi, had used "the wrong place to say the wrong thing at the wrong time." Although some State Department deskmen agreed that it was indelicate diplomacy to answer India's leader from the capital of his unfriendly neighbor, the Administration...
...most of their time trying to thwart the Republican Administration. At a Cabinet meeting on May 22, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson said he wished more Republican legislators would realize that they were no longer members of the opposition. Replied the President: "Brother, I heartily agree." When Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, at that meeting, cautioned that the national debt might go above the legal limit, Ike asked: "Who will have to go to jail if that happens?" Replied Humphrey: "We will have to go to Congress." Groaned the President: "Oh, that's worse...
George M. Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury LL.D...
...severely criticized as a boom-toppling instrument of deflation, largely because of its credit-tightening action. Amid the growing furor over credit, Texas Representative Wright Patman called for a full-dress congressional investigation to find out if the Federal Reserve has pinched credit too tight. Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and White House Economic Adviser Arthur Burns have all voiced public disapproval of FRB's fifth boost in the discount rate in a year (to 3% in two districts), although President Eisenhower publicly defended the right of the independent agency to use its own judgment. General...
Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, who had privately opposed the boost in discount rates, now publicly said that it was unnecessary and that "natural conditions" would have checked any trend toward inflation...