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...Consider renewal of Cordell Hull's power to make reciprocal trade agreements...
...Deal's seven years, the one New Dealer who never got his lumps from the opposition was good grey Cordell Hull, the homely and ascetic Secretary of State who remained placidly in his old rookery on Pennsylvania Avenue, quietly preaching the apparently unassailable doctrine that good trade follows good will. Last week Mr. Hull's turn came...
...lofty official chamber, his long, sensitive hands clasped and unclasped in thought, to Cordell Hull's ears came only the muffled tick of the ancient grandfather clock that has been in the Department of State offices since 1777. But the tick may well have seemed like the tick of a timebomb. He had just received a blunt warning-a demand by Michigan's Senator Arthur Vandenberg that Mr. Hull's reciprocal trade agreements be investigated by the Senate...
...Secretary Hull signed a trade agreement with Cuba that cut the duty on sugar 40%, the duty on stemmed cigar filler tobacco from 40? to 25? a pound...
Biggest was the news of the appointment of Myron Taylor to the Vatican (see p. 7). But behind the old cream-colored swinging doors of the State Department, Cordell Hull, 47th U. S. Secretary of State, his aides and under secretaries, carried through the routine steps according to the great tradition of their great and second-rate predecessors...