Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changes in immigration laws), Economic Advisers Arthur Burns and Gabriel Hauge, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss and National Security Aide Dillon Anderson (to talk about getting the President's atoms-for-peace program back on the international track), Defense Mobilization Chief Arthur Flemming, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson and Republican congressional leaders (for an 80-minute conference in which the President urged high priority for his farm-policy recommendations...
...cover: "How Dulles Gambled and Won." Democratic Candidate Adlai Stevenson said: "I am shocked that the Secretary of State is willing to play Russian roulette with the life of our nation ... On too many occasions the Republican Administration has acted unilaterally without adequate regard for our allies." Senator Hubert Humphrey made three formal statements in which he accused Dulles of "hocuspocus . . . fraud . . . callousness toward world opinion." The New York Times's James Reston concluded: "Mr. Dulles has added something new to the art of diplomatic blundering. This is the planned mistake. He doesn't stumble into booby traps...
Behind the Figures. Hughes began work on the 1957 budget last May, when he sat down with the President, Treasury Secretary Humphrey, a group of economists and other brass to block out the broad policies that would shape the year. At that first meeting they aimed toward a balanced budget, assumed continued prosperity and no hot war. In June the Cabinet approved the basic assumptions. Then Hughes wrote policy letters to each agency head, giving him the broad guide lines, asking for a 5% cut, setting a tentative department budget ceiling, and requesting estimates by Sept...
...news conference, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey was needled by a reporter wanting to learn what Humphrey will do about Utah's unruly Republican Governor J. Bracken Lee, who won't pay his 1955 income tax until ordered to, because he hates to see tax dollars going out in foreign aid. Harrumphed Republican Humphrey: "I'm going...
...Desperate Hours. A man's home is his prison in the thriller-diller of the season; with Fredric March, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...