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Last week the Senate: > Finishing fighting over Cordell Hull's authority to negotiate trade agreements (TIME, April 8), downed a final attempt to limit extension to one instead of three years, sent the bill unamended to President Roosevelt. Final vote...
...with one or two, but with three grains of salt. "With even more salt," echoed Mr. Bullitt, before leaving by Clipper for France. Said Count Potocki in Washington: "I have never had any conversations with Ambassador Bullitt on America's participation in the war." Said Secretary of State Hull: "I may say most emphatically that neither I nor any of my associates in the Department of State have ever heard of any such conversations as those alleged, nor do we give them the slightest credence." From Harvard Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. denied that he had Mr. Roosevelt...
...Foxy Pat had won (had actually got one more vote than he needed); the Senate Republicans hoped they had a campaign issue; the Western Democrats were on record in defense of the interests they represent; the Southern Democrats had safely preserved the candidacy of Mr. Hull-a candidacy now theoretically perfect except for the fact that few Democrats believe he can win the election...
Neither the President nor Secretary Hull said in so many words that they were a fraud. They echoed familiar and fre quent public utterances of Francophile Bill Bullitt. On the sore point, the declaration that the U. S. would eventually go to war, they did not indicate that Mr. Bullitt had said much if anything more than most U. S. citizens were saying a few months...
...Deputy Minister of Labor) in preparation for a public career. Up to that time Mackenzie King had been headed for social service. After graduating from the University of Toronto and Harvard he had studied social conditions in Europe, done social work under Jane Addams at Chicago's Hull House. But his grandfather had led an abortive rebellion against the British in upper Canada, and Sir Wilfred thought the grandson had the stuff of a leader in him. He made him Minister of Labor in 1909. From 1911, when the Conservatives came in, until Sir Wilfred's death...