Word: humphrey
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...primary reason for choosing the Boston area as a starting point in the subcommittee's tour, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) explained, was the large number of experts in the international field at the universities in the area...
...president since last fall, Banker Waugh has worked hard to boost overseas loans. Back in the early days of the Administration Treasury Secretary Humphrey, who had to lend the bank its funds, was skeptical, wanted to cut down. But after studying the bank's consistent profits ($59 million in fiscal 1955), he became an ardent booster, hand-picked Waugh and backed his policy of increasing the flow of loans. Now President Waugh is funneling out new loans at a greater rate than last year. Among them: $19.6 million to the Santos-Jundiai Railway in Brazil...
...CUTS are out for this year, says none other than Treasury Secretary George Humphrey. Humphrey stands by the earlier estimate of a $200 million budget surplus this fiscal year, but insists that it is not enough to lower taxes...
Franklin D. Roosevelt called Washington Columnist Drew Pearson "a chronic liar." President Truman called him "an s.o.b." Last week Columnist Pearson got further presidential notice. Pearson had written that, unknown to newsmen cover ing President Eisenhower's recent "golfing-hunting sojourn" with Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey at Thomasville, Ga.. Vice President Nixon had paid Ike "a secret visit" to talk about his own renomination. Next day at Ike's press conference, a newsman asked: "At any time while you were in Thomasville. did Vice President Nixon meet with you there?" Replied the President emphatically...
...major threat to Stevenson, and by week's end Adlai had reason to feel confident about Estes. Flying from New York to Minnesota, where he collides head-on with Kefauver in the March 20 presidential primary, Stevenson found the powerful Democrat-Farmer-Labor organization of Senator Hubert Humphrey and Governor Orville Freeman working smoothly on his behalf. Freeman platform-hopped about the state with Stevenson, Humphrey returned home from Washington for a weekend of campaigning, and Eleanor Roosevelt was scheduled to lend a hand this week. D.-F.-L. Chairman Ray Hemenway predicted that Stevenson would defeat Kefauver...