Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice during the week Ike motored through the frosty Catoctin Mountains to Camp David to confer with his Cabinet and other officials. There were many pressing items on the agenda: reconciling the needs of Defense Secretary Wilson's military establishment with the economies of Treasury Secretary Humphrey's all-but-balanced budget, the simmering farm problem of Agriculture Secretary Benson, the changing international situation, the State of the Union message. At one of the Camp David meetings, the discussions went on for so long that Presidential Physician Howard Snyder finally stalked into the conference room and ordered...
FARM-SUBSIDY CEILING is getting strong support in President Eisenhower's Cabinet. Treasury Secretary Humphrey is privately urging Agriculture Secretary Benson to adopt the idea (once part of the controversial Brannan Plan), possibly put a $25,000 limit on the price support any one farmer can collect...
Among the things discussed at the conferences : details of Ike's January State of the Union message to Congress, and a review by Secretary Dulles of the implications of the Geneva conference on U.S. strategy. Between meetings, Ike and Dulles joined Secretaries Humphrey and Wilson over a bridge table in the presidential lodge; they breakfasted next morning with Vice President Nixon...
Minnesota's left-of-center U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, however, labeled it "twelve hits and one strike-out." The strikeout: Johnson's proposal on natural gas. Texan Johnson and Democrats from other gas-producing states want natural gas to flow free of federal price controls, while Democrats of Minnesotan Humphrey's stripe want tight control from Washington to hold prices down. Majority Leader Johnson's point on gas might in 1956 lead to a congressional fight demonstrating that not all Democratic hearts are in the same place. As for the rest of the program, the Democratic...
...Desperate Hours. A man's home is his prison in the thriller-diller of the season; with Fredric March, Humphrey Bogart (TIME...