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...except ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull, now in his fifth month at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital...
John Foster Dulles, Republican internationalist who, as Tom Dewey's representative, enabled Cordell Hull to take Dumbarton Oaks out of politics, made his principal pre-San Francisco speech in Manhattan. He demanded that the San Francisco Conference make two essential improvements on the Dumbarton Oaks plan-which he called a plan without a soul. "My first proposal," said he, "is that the organization should be infused with an ethical spirit, the spirit of justice. . . . The charter should require the new organization, as its first order of business, to undertake the difficult but essential task of developing conceptions of justice...
...Cordell Hull, 73, who quit his $15,000-a-year job as Secretary of State because of ill health, landed on another Government payroll. As long as he was working for the Government, ex-Captain Hull of the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (which saw service as a pacification force in Cuba) had declined to accept his over-age-65 pension. But after his resignation, Hull applied, now receives his $75 a month along with almost 130,000 other Spanish-American War veterans...
Barnacles are a serious hindrance to a ship, slowing it down and making it clumsy to handle. Normally a ship must have her hull scraped every six to 18 months. But the new paint, developed by the Navy's Bureau of Ships, keeps a ship's bottom whistle-clean for two to five years. A brown, syrupy compound of cuprous oxide and synthetic resins, it is sprayed on hot (300°F.), forms a coat ten times as thick as ordinary paint...
Objective, Burma! (Errol Flynn, Henry Hull; TIME...