Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Humphrey, Secretary of the United States, is as bright as a silver dollar but just as hard." Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics, declared last night before 150 who rallied to support Democratic presidential aspirant Adlai E. Stevenson...
Illinois, where Democratic State Central Committeeman John R. Asher, of downstate Paris (pop. 9,700, and 150 miles south of Chicago), announced that he was switching to Kefauver after checking sentiment in 30 downstate counties. Some excited chattering began after Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, who had staked his organization on Stevenson and had gone down to defeat in Minnesota, stopped in to see his "old friend" Kefauver. The old friend strolled out, clasped Humphrey's hand and cried: "Hello, cousin Hubert!" Burbled Humphrey: "Good to see you, brother Estes." Then they threw an arm around each other...
...committee, headed by Senator Humphrey (D. Minn.), will hear David F. Cavers, Associate Dean of the Law School, Lincoln Gordon '34, William Ziegler, Professor of International Economic Relations, Professor Walter Rostow of MIT, and Professor Max T. Millikan...
Members of the Subcommittee besides Humphrey are Senators Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), John Sparkman (D-Ala.), John O. Pastore (D,R.I.), Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), Alben W. Barkley (D-Ky), Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.), Bourke B. Hickenlooper (R-Iowa), Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.), William F. Knowland (R-Calif.), and John W. Bricker (R-Ohio...
BUSINESS TAX CUTS, like income tax reductions, are out for 1956. After Treasury Secretary George Humphrey testified that the U.S. will need another $1 billion this year, the Senate Finance Committee voted to block the scheduled $3.2 billion cut in excise (liquor, cars, etc.) and corporate taxes...