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...80th Congress will re-examine the reciprocal trade program created by Cordell Hull; Nebraska's high-tariff Senator Hugh Butler has written Assistant Secretary of State Clayton asking him to postpone trade negotiations with 18 nations. Republican Congressmen would like to scrutinize some 3,000 pending trade agreement items before any agreements are made under the blanket authority delegated by Democratic Congresses to the President...
...sulky cap. He stood on the conning tower with Skipper Casler, a fellow Missourian, while the U-2513 headed for open sea, beyond the southernmost limits of the U.S. Then, as the boat was rigged for diving, Harry Truman went below to the control room. Elevators depressed, the streamlined hull slid gently beneath the blue waters. The depth indicator showed that the President was going deeper than any of his predecessors*-200 feet, 300, 400 and finally 440. The U-boat could have gone deeper, but that was as far as the Navy wanted to take its Commander in Chief...
...early '30s, when the Good Neighbor Policy was instituted, the man to whom policy mainly meant words was good, grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull; the man to whom it meant deeds was glacial Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Today, Hull's position has been taken by Spruille Braden, who is still Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, and George Messersmith's immediate boss. The chief exponent of the philosophy that policy means deeds (or tactics and approach) is George Messersmith...
...bringing together of all Western Hemisphere nations in a democratic group, worked, in effect, when it was administered by Welles (along with some shrewd and cold-hearted Welles meddling in internal Latin American affairs). It was least effective when it was merely pronounced in righteous terms by Cordell Hull, who had an unhappy faculty of alienating sensitive Latinos with the Tennessee mountain vigor of his epithets...
Found: a dormitory for Kilroy's nine children. James J. Kilroy of Halifax, Mass., who says he first wrote "Kilroy was here" on the Lexington's hull in a shipyard, won a contest for the best explanation of how the Kilroy thing started, received as a reward one streetcar from the Boston Elevated Railway Co. If Kilroy can get it home, that will be the children's wing...