Arab world befuddled by Obama's Nobel Oct 14, 2009
Three secretaries of state, Fred B Kellogg, Cordell Hull and Henry Kissinger, received the award in 1929, 1945 and 1973, respectively. But Roosevelt did not get the Nobel until five years into his presidency, after a long and colorful career as vice president, governor of New York and assistant cabinet secretary during the administration of president William McKinley. (Asia Times Online)
'Liberal Sellout Award'? Oct 11, 2009
It used to be -- early in the Nobel, some presidents -- like Theodore Roosevelt got one for mediating the Russo-Japanese war, Woodrow Wilson for helping make the peace terms of World War I. Then there became a period when Americans won, it wasn't the president, meaning Franklin Roosevelt probably should have won for creating the United Nations, but the award went to his secretary of state, Cordell Hull. Or Harry Truman should have won it for the Marshall plan, but the award went to Marshall. (Fox News)
Winning peace prize could stymie Obama Oct 11, 2009
1945, Cordell Hull - United Nations founder. 1953, George C. Marshall - ex-secretary of state. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Peace Nobel has a history of controversies Oct 10, 2009
Cordell Hull (1945): The secretary of state was awarded for his efforts to establish peace in the Western Hemisphere. He however was responsible for the return of SS St Louis back to Germany. (India Times, India)
The Inconvenient Truth About Africa Aug 19, 2009
Roosevelt's Secretaries of State were Cordell Hull, Edward Stettinius, Jr., and James F. Byrnes. MOHAIR.SAM. (Slate)
Ive been thinking...... Jul 8, 2009
When I look through the collection of plate block stamps accumulated by myself and my dad in the 50 s and 60 s, I am impressed at the caliber of the individuals chosen to be honored by being represented on a postage stamp: Cordell Hull, John Muir, Mary Cassatt, Robert Fulton, the Mayo Brothers, John Steinbeck, etc. etc. (Weymouth News, MA)
Heritage Dinner planned June 13 May 28, 2009
The name Heritage was chosen in recognition of the service to the country and state by such celebrated Tennessee Democrats as Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, Alvin York, Cordell Hull, Estes Kefauver and Al Gore, Jr.. For the past month committee members have been busy planning the menu, the program, the speakers and promotion for the event. (Columbia Daily Herald, TN)
Sergeant York Movie (1941) May 25, 2009
Other players include Walter Brennan (Pastor Rosier Pile), Joan Leslie (Gracie Williams), George Tobias ("Pusher" Ross), Stanley Ridges (Major Buxton), Margaret Wycherly (Mother York), Ward Bond (Ike Botkin), Noah Beery Jr. (Buck Lipscomb), June Lockhart (Rosie York), Dickie Moore (George York), Clem Bevans (Zeke), Howard Da Silva (Lem), Charles Trowbridge (Cordell Hull) and Joseph W. Girard (General John J. Pershing). Filmed in California. (Suite101.com)
Tenn. resolution urges creation of Gore statue... May 8, 2009
-- A resolution urging the creation of statues to be built on the Tennessee Capitol grounds of the state's two Nobel Peace Prize winners, Al Gore and Cordell Hull, is on its way to a full Senate vote. The Senate State and Local Government Committee on Tuesday advanced the measure supporting the privately funded statues on a 9-0 vote. (The Drudge Report)
Requiem for the 'war on terror' Apr 17, 2009
As early as 1937, Secretary of State Cordell Hull said publicly: "There can be no serious hostilities anywhere in the world which will not one way or another affect interests or rights or obligations of this country." Since the late 1940s, US policymakers have assumed that there were no serious "contingencies" of any kind, anywhere on the planet, that did not affect this country's interests. In public, they substitute polite euphemisms for the pursuit of those interests like "global... (Asia Times Online)
History lesson Mar 24, 2009
And he appointed a strong advocate of free trade, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to lead the US delegation. But behind the scenes it was clear that FDR was hedging his bets. (BBC News -- Business)
