Obama Appointments Reveal His Inexperience Nov 25, 2008
Not since Cordell Hull in the '30s have we had a secretary so interested in running for president. Not since William Jennings Bryan in the 1910s have we had a defeated nominee named as secretary. (Newsmax)
Clinton's potential pitfalls seen in FDR's secretary of State Nov 24, 2008
Like Cordell Hull, she could find herself marginalized because she hasn't been close to the president she would serve ... By Paul Richter November 24, 2008 Reporting from Washington -- Cordell Hull was a veteran lawmaker with a worldwide reputation when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him secretary of State in 1933, in part to win needed support from Hull's army of Democratic admirers. (Los Angeles Times)
The next president and the 'war on terror' Nov 1, 2008
If she flops, history will remember her as America's least effective secretary of state since Cordell Hull spent World War II being ignored, bypassed, and humiliated by Franklin Roosevelt. She will depart Foggy Bottom having accomplished nothing. (Asia Times Online)
You Can't Spread the Wealth Around Oct 18, 2008
A couple of bright spots are illustrative however, when Cordell Hull began to negotiate tariffs lower the economy saw improvement, when the NRA was abolished as unconstitutional, the economy saw improvement, gee, what a concept, less government micro-management and freer trade boosted the economy. What's not to like. (Townhall.com)
Area Lake Fishing Report (9) Aug 24, 2008
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 Edition. Today's Weather Lafayette, TN. (Lafayette Macon County Times, TN)
Georgia Is a Vital U.S. Interest Aug 19, 2008
Here is where tough, old-fashion, Cordell Hull cuss-word diplomacy does come into play. Shilly-shallying in the United Nations Security Council is a waste of previous time and an absurd joke. (Newsmax)
Down Memory Lane (20) May 18, 2008
Vicki Huffines was pictured in the Times with several large bass her father, billy Huffines, caught at Cordell Hull Lake. G. W. Hauskins was named chairman of the Lafayette Regional Planning Commission. (Lafayette Macon County Times, TN)
Herbert Hoover's Ghost Haunts Markets, Democrats: Amity Shlaes Mar 20, 2008
For many decades now, Democrats have contrasted Hoover's concession to protectionists unfavorably with free-trade legislation written by Roosevelt and his globalization guru, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Today it is the Democrats who are doing wrong, and they know better. (Bloomberg -- Columnists)
Add the danger of Center Hill Dam failure to the list of regional worries Jan 9, 2008
In the worst case scenario, the Corps officials estimate flood waters would rise to the deck of the Veterans Memorial and Cordell Hull bridges on the Cumberland at Carthage. If all of this sounds familiar, it is because Trousdale, Clay and Smith, along with other regional emergency officials, have already prepared plans for the evacuation of their counties in the event of a collapse of Wolf Creek Dam in Kentucky. (Lafayette Macon County Times, TN)
Activities will be held Thursday to commemorate the 1937 massacre, when Japanese troops killed over 300,000 Chinese civilians and captives, raped over 20,000.• U.S. archives: 500,000 Chinese massacred Dec 13, 2007
In the other telegram sent by Clarence E. Causs, U.S. Consul in Shanghai, to Secretary of State Cordell Hull on Jan. 25, 1938, Gauss reported the brutalities of Japanese army spotted by the U.S. missionaries in the cities near Nanjing during the same period. Wang said he found the telegrams, numbered as RG59-793. (Xinhuanet, China)
Palo Alto protests 'unachievable' housing goals Dec 12, 2007
Cordell Hull was described by Franklin Roosevelt as the "Father of the United Nations." He was an inspiration and hero to my own father, who followed Hull in the Congress and the U.S. Senate and in his commitment to world peace and global cooperation ... Eight weeks ago, when you announced this prize, the deepest emotion I felt was when I saw the headline in my hometown paper that simply noted I had won the same prize that Cordell Hull had won. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
'Make peace with the planet,' Al Gore urges Dec 11, 2007
The first was U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull who got it in 1945 for his role fostering the United Nations. He said saving the global environment must become "the central organizing principle of the world community". (Globe and Mail -- International)
Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize for climate campaign Oct 14, 2007
In the steps of his fellow war criminals: Theodore Roosevelt, Jimmy Carter, Le Duc Tho, Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Mikhail Gorbachev, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Cordell Hull, George Marshall, Charles Dawes, and - above all, the man most directly responsible for at least 150 million dying at the behest of State terror and starvation - Woodrow Wilson. Gore joins a large, illustrious, State-worshipping, murderous company, extending over a century, made bloody in... (Yahoo News -- Climate Change)
ARMY SOLDIER SHOW: Tour also chance to find talent Aug 15, 2007
During his dance routine before Hurtado and Cordell Hull, the music and artistic director of USA Express, Reyes combined classical ballet maneuvers with contemporary steps. He s another diamond in the rough, said Hull, who is with a small, compact traveling band and singers who entertain soldiers who are deployed. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Plugging the democracy gap Jul 31, 2007
(The quote has been attributed variously to Cordell Hull, speaking about the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, and to Franklin Roosevelt, referring to the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Garc. a.) Isn't that the policy that has landed America exactly where it is today in so much of the Islamic world, with vast majorities of young people hating the United States, in part because America is seen as a key supporter of the governments that oppress them. (International Herald Tribune)
Gore And Thompson Can Afford To Watch And Wait - 6/9/2007 Jul 7, 2007
They held the same seat in the Senate -- its prior occupants included Cordell Hull, Estes Kefauver and Howard H. Baker Jr., all of whom had presidential ambitions -- and together they will hang back awhile and see how things develop. The charms of Iowa in August are much overrated. (FOX23.com, OK)
Take time to enjoy activities, say thanks Jul 5, 2007
Shelby County Reporter. Do you think that the mandatory 3 month check up after sex offenders are released from jail is enough to consider them safe for our community. (Columbiana Shelby County Reporter, AL)
Franklin County mulls lot size change Jul 2, 2007
It creates trash land people can t cultivate, and can t take care of because they don t have the equipment, Whitney resident Cordell Hull said. Swainston said the acreage was a contested issue in committee meetings, with members evenly split between 1 and 2 acres. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Man Drowns at Wartrace Park Jun 27, 2007
Located just 20 miles southeast of Lafayette and a popular recreation destination for boaters, fishermen, and swimmers, the Corps of Engineers park on Cordell Hull Lake was the scene of an intensive search and recovery operation, Saturday, Sunday and Monday, with Macon County and Red Boiling Rescue Squad personnel joining others in searching for the drowned man. e started searching for him soon after the report came in, said Jackson County Rescue Squad Capt. Joey Denson on Sunday afternoon. (Lafayette Macon County Times, TN)
How to project 'soft power' Jun 23, 2007
Five years later, the State Department established its Division of Cultural Relations under the guidance of secretary of state Cordell Hull, as well as visionaries like Sumner Welles and Ben Cherrington. Following the precedents of France's office of cultural relations (1923) and the British Council (1934), it took a long-term view of international relations that cherished cultural exchanges and a gradualist approach. (Asia Times Online)
ERNEST W. LEFEVER: 'Axis of Evil' update May 31, 2007
In 1943, U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull saw it differently. When assessing the embryonic United Nations, he rhapsodized: "There will no longer be any need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power... by which in the unhappy past the nations strove to safeguard their security or to promote their interests." Hull received Nobel Prize for peace in 1945. (Washington Times)
Manski: Ballots Before Bullets May 25, 2007
Leading the opposition to the war referendum idea, Secretary of State Cordell Hull argued for a presidential power to initiate war, together with a commensurate weakening of congressional control over foreign policy. . (Zmag.org)
Around the towns May 20, 2007
In 1945, World War II was ending, former Secretary of State Cordell Hull won the Nobel Peace Prize, Going My Way won the Academy Award, and 53 people graduated from Mayfield High School, which over time became Lakeland High School. On Saturday, about 15 surviving members of the class of 1945 will meet at the Ponderosa restaurant for their 62nd class reunion. (Scranton Times, PA)
A Mom Drain and the rest of the world Apr 9, 2007
Cordell Hull got the nod instead. Well Bob jumped right in, arguing that we definitely should go with the Democrats, they having cleaned the Republicans clocks in 06. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Confronting Iraq's Exodus Mar 5, 2007
In World War II, Secretary of State Cordell Hull infamously declined to accept Jewish Holocaust refugees, adhering instead to prewar immigration quotas. Thirty years later, the U.S. watched as a crisis built ahead of the April 1975 collapse of South Vietnam, in part because 54% of Americans were against admitting Vietnamese who were fleeing the communists. (Time.com)
George: Alternative Finances Feb 1, 2007
Keynes died in 1946; the US Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, also a champion of the ITO, was no longer in government; the enthusiastic, lets refashion the world moment of Bretton Woods had passed. The US State and Treasury Departments were busy with the Marshall Plan and with US reciprocal trade agreements with individual countries. (Zmag.org)
