Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Hubert Humphrey, a careful reader of magazines, was incensed again. Standing in the Senate chamber one afternoon last week, he brandished a copy of the December Harper's, then read excerpts from an article entitled "The Country Slickers Take Us Again." The article, a blast at farm subsidies, was enough to make any farm-belt Senator (such as Minnesota's Humphrey) writhe in anguish. Excerpts...
...much the article* that raised Humphrey's hackles, as it was a brief endorsement of it in the letters-to-the-editor column of the February issue of the magazine. "I have read the article," the letter said, ". . . with a great deal of interest. It is excellent." The letter was signed by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. "This man," shouted Hubert Humphrey, "should be fired-now-this afternoon!" Immediately a mooing chorus of farm-bloc Senators raised their protests to the glass roof of the chamber. Republican Senators Milton Young of North Dakota and Francis Case of South Dakota...
...Senate side, the Republicans must depend heavily on Northern Democratic help to force civil-rights legislation through the Judiciary Committee. They are likely to get that help. Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, for one, says: "The Democratic Party is spelling its long-term doom unless it does something. Our party ought to be the champion of equal rights-it's morally right and it's politically right. If this Administration is sincere, they'll get my full support...
...action begins when Bogart, as an army captain, attempts to discover why his army buddy was killed. Noble Humphrey not only finds the killers, but also his dead chum's true love, night club singer Lizabeth Scott. He likes the way she sings. That she talks like a hoarse Lauren Bacall and sings like a wounded sea lion does not deter our boy Bogart...
...press conference on the 1956 budget, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey warned that high taxes can restrict freedom. Said Humphrey...