Word: departments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact and truth than your Aug. 1 review of Cordell Hull's life. When I was a lad, the Hull family were neighbors. I knew them well. Your picture of Billy Hull is true to life . . . Likewise, the word picture of the career of Cordell Hull does not depart from fact and truth. It reveals the heart and mind of him -America's most respected statesman of modern times...
When the gunmen depart with her husband, Hildy Parks at last summons the courage to call the police, who agree to cooperate in silence. The tension builds in the last reels through the device of showing the mechanical difficulties of tracing a phone call. The fate of the trapped man oddly becomes less important than the technical riddles that must be solved in determining from what exchange, and in precisely what sequence of numerals, the kidnaper is phoning his instructions. The film ends in the customary blaze of guns, and Kelly is happily reunited with his family. But the film...
...nations. Before them, in the view finders of their cameras, stood the President of the U.S., as fresh-faced as they. "Well, youngsters," said Dwight Eisenhower, "it seems a bit of fortunate coincidence that I should have an opportunity to see you just as I am about to depart for Geneva." He was going to Europe to talk peace, he said, in the hope that he could bring about a more tranquil life for their generation than his generation has had. But, in a word of advice to the youngsters, he expressed the basic philosophy that he was taking across...
Johnson also saw Acting Majority Leader Earle Clements four times last week, filled the air with angrily colorful phrases when a nurse asked Clements to depart...
...matters, Eisen hower is much more dependent on his advisers. He has great confidence in Economic Adviser Arthur Burns and Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey. He gave to Humphrey a general directive to hold down Government expenditures. Obeying it, Humphrey often finds him self in conflict with other department heads; Washington gagsters call Humphrey "Secretary of Everything." But Humphrey's function, long missed in Washington, is the essential one of imposing outside limits on Government activities, limits which force operating depart ments to relearn that economy is the parent of effectiveness. Humphrey and the President have become warm...