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Congressman. In 1906 Cordell Hull announced for the Fourth District Congressional seat and won election. He stayed in Congress, as Representative and Senator, 14 years, generally pounding along the single track of "free trade." By 1919 he was calling for world economic conferences to level trade barriers. Tossed out in 1920 by the Harding landslide, his-services to the party had been such that he was made Democratic National Committee Chairman as a compliment...
Back in Congress in 1923, long before the New Deal originated, Cordell Hull enhanced his reputation as the party's leading economist. Many times he pointed out that after World War I the U. S. had become a creditor nation, that Europe could pay back only in goods, that it could not pay at all if tariff barriers were built ever higher. He still hates the Smoot-Hawley Act so fiercely that he has denounced it almost daily for nine years; he is certain it caused the world depression...
...Secretary. Franklin Roosevelt began consulting him in the 1932 campaign, and Cordell Hull was ready with a revision of his old plan for international multilateral trade agreements, whereby benefits accorded any one nation were unconditionally granted to all. This was directed against all barriers. This breadth of view had made him famous; now it helped set him in the Cabinet, to the surprise of many...
...first, in the glittering company of Raymond Moley and the other brilliant original New Dealers, Mr. Hull's homespun generalities and international outlook seemed dreamy idealism. But over the years Cordell Hull showed staying-power, and gradually Franklin Roosevelt became a Hull man, carrying out Hull doctrines, whereas nowhere was there evidence that Mr. Hull was a New Dealer. "I just tends to ma inte'national affairs," he always said when chums tried to needle him into criticisms of the gyrating show around...
...Dealers are not a showy lot, but none matches the official simplicity of Jacksonian Mr. Secretary Hull. At Montevideo for his first major Latin American conference, an hour after the boat docked, with hat in hand he was trudging about the town, informally calling on the delegates, meticulously mispronouncing their names. He would knock on the door, say "I'm Hull of the U. S." and begin chatting. Astounded, then charmed by this informality, delegates from the banana republics laid aside their silk hats and silk manners, forgot their jealousy and hatred for the Colossus of the North...