Word: hoffman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing room of the Capitol, Tennessee's ancient and irascible Senator Kenneth McKellar faced ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman, who had been reported by the morning papers as saying he would resign if the Senate cut any more of the $3.5 billion which the House had allotted ECA for 1950. Said McKellar, chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "Other than giving away other people's money, I wonder what you are doing in Europe ... I think it would be the best thing for the people of the U.S. and Europe if you did resign . . . Why you sent a lobbyist...
...skillfully delivered an eight-pound baby at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Dr. George L. Hoffman declared: "Color television is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...
...conference room four floors below, the 60 medicos and reporters who had just watched (on three TV screens) a full-color reproduction of Hoffman's technique were inclined to agree with him. So, apparently, was the Federal Communications Commission. Last week in Washington, the FCC announced that color television would be licensed just as soon as the color image can be received "satisfactorily" by ordinary black & white sets "with relatively minor modifications...
...Capitol Hill scurried ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who had spent anxious months justifying the appropriations. To Republican Leader Joseph Martin and Republican Tightwad John Taber, Salesman Hoffman made an urgent, timely appeal. The cuts, warned Hoffman, would embarrass Secretary of State Dean Acheson at the Big Four conference in Paris. Hoffman's proposition: let the cuts stand, but let ECA come back for more at the end of 13½ months instead of the 15 months originally intended...
...Rule the World," Collier's brashly announced, in an article based on an informal poll of members of the Overseas Press Club, are the U.S.'s Harry Truman, Dean Acheson, Paul Hoffman, Walter Reuther and Douglas MacArthur; the U.S.S.R.'s Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Georgy Malenkov, Nikoli Bulganin and Lavrenty Beria; Britain's Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin and Winston Churchill; France's Jacques Duclos and Charles de Gaulle; Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, China's Mao Tse-tung, Spain's Francisco Franco, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, India's Jawaharlal Nehru...