Word: humphrey
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...examined the patient, and came to a conclusion: the experience had helped rather than harmed him. With that, a whole series of conferences with members of the Cabinet and other top officials of the U.S. Government fell into line. Before the week was out Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey (see below) spent a quarter of an hour in the President's room; early this week Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson and Admiral Arthur Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, are scheduled; later in the week Attorney General Herbert Brownell will fly to Denver...
Into President Eisenhower's hospital room one day last week walked U.S. Secretary of the Treasury George Magoffin Humphrey to talk about money and other matters. He brought good news: his newest estimates indicate that the U.S. budget for the current fiscal year ending June 30 can be balanced. A combination of two circumstances are at work, said Humphrey. "One will be somewhat higher revenues than we anticipated, because of the continuation of the good times that we are now enjoying, and the other will be because of the savings that have been made...
Whether the balance on June 30 will leave room for a tax cut next year Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey could not say. He hoped that it would, but he did not try to forecast that possibility for the President. From the budget they moved on to discuss a wide area of U.S. Government policy. The breadth of their discussion was no surprise. While there is a slogan in Washington that "Money means George, and George means money," the fact is that George means quite a bit more...
...That's All I Want." Although he is much less in the public eye than some other members of the Administration team, e.g., Vice President Nixon and Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams (TIME, Oct. 17), George Humphrey has a wide influence that touches about every phase of government. Because military planning and foreign policy have such a deep effect on the U.S. budget, Humphrey sits as a key member of the National Security Council...
...March shows a man at his unadorned best, Humphrey Bogart just as skilfully gets inside the workings of a criminal mentality and depicts it as what it is: the mind of an animal. Yet he and the other two jungledwellers, Dewey Martin and Robert Middleton, have their sympathetic moments. They are animals, but curiously complex ones...