Word: hull
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fortnight ago came the break. In a front-page column in the Washington Post, Roosevelt-Biographer Ernest K. Lindley reported that in a conversation with a Democratic elder, Mr. Roosevelt said: 1) he would not run for Term III unless the Germans overran England; 2) Secretary of State Cordell Hull was his candidate, was safe, could be elected; 3) Jim Farley was unacceptable as a Vice-Presidential nominee because some people might think the Democrats "were using Cordell Hull as a stalking horse for the Pope" (TIME, March...
...after his intricate itinerary, denied some more rumors: "I wish to state categorically that I have not received any peace plan or proposals . . . that I have not conveyed any such proposals . . . nor am I bringing back to the President any such proposals." As President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull joined the chorus of deniers in Washington, foreign opinion on the Welles mission changed: like hosts speaking their mind after the guest left, editorial writers sneered at the unreality and ambiguity of the mission. Punch printed an old-fashioned cartoon showing Mr. Welles dealing in magic and spells...
Promptly Jimmy's boss, Secretary of State Hull, demanded to see a transcript of the speech, and as Jimmy flew back to his New Jersey estate, delivered a stinging and public rebuke: "The address contravened standing instructions to American diplomatic officers. . . . Such public statements by our diplomatic representatives are likely to disturb the relations between this and other governments." The Hon. Mr. Cromwell, his head still on but his diplomatic bottom well spanked, was told to observe in future the "standing instructions...
Professor Elmer E. Nyberg, who teaches public speaking at New York University, revised and enlarged his ratings for public speakers as of 1940: grade C-Cordell Hull, Paul V. McNutt ("an orator, not a public speaker"), Robert A. Taft; Grade B plus-Arthur H. Vandenberg (too harsh) and Thomas E. Dewey; Grade A minus-Franklin D. Roosevelt (A plus until he "started to scold"); Grade A plus -Herbert Hoover (Grade...
...spoil him. Brian Aherne is the excessively fond father. Louis Hayward (with a popeyed, bigmouthed, knowing leer) plays the wayward son who, after failing to seduce his future stepmother (Madeleine Carroll), succeeds in seducing the daughter (Laraine Day) of his father's best friend (Henry Hull). In the book the son dies by hanging, in the picture he dies a hero in World...