Word: pauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last night of his slam-bang Wisconsin campaign, Candidate Harold Stassen gave a little dinner party at La Crosse for the newsmen who had accompanied his final drive. Then he drove back across the Minnesota line to his home in St. Paul. Next morning he slept late, napped in the afternoon, played a game of chess with his son Glen. After a quiet family supper he flipped on the radio, started listening to broadcast returns and the excited telephone calls from his Wisconsin managers. By 10 o'clock that night Harold Stassen knew...
...Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker Corp., was in Honolulu, on his way home from Korea and Japan, when a telephone call from the White House caught up with him. The call was from John Steelman. Harry Truman's aide wanted to know whether Hoffman, who had been a member of a commission making a Far East economic survey, would head the Economic Cooperation Administration. Hoffman said later: "I tried for two days to think of how to say No, but I just couldn't." Two days later, lugging a suitcase full of dirty laundry, he landed in Washington...
...Republican & Responsible." But three hours later the news was official. Paul Hoffman, now nominated as the boss of ECA, called another press conference. It was a different Hoffman who confronted nearly 100 newsmen, photographers and newsreel men in the Statler Hotel's Congressional Room. His answers were prompt and candid. He was supposed to be a hard-boiled businessman, said a reporter. Would he be hard-boiled with Europe? "The money we put up for European recovery can only stimulate Europe's economy," he said. "It cannot create...
Quick Confirmation. Meanwhile, up on Capitol Hill, Senator Arthur Vandenberg brought Hoffman's appointment before the Senate for confirmation. Said Vandenberg: during the months of discussion, the man most frequently mentioned for the job had been 56-year-old Paul Hoffman. Hoffman, said Vandenberg, "was found to be the common denominator of the thought of the nation." Hoffman was also well aware of the need to cooperate with Congress, Van added reassuringly. The Senate confirmed him unanimously, in 10 minutes...
...Paul Sapir, secretary of the Harvard Liberal Union, announced last night the names of the seven H.L.U. members who yesterday departed for the Chicago convention of the Students for Democratic Action...