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...year of maximum exposure," was near at hand. (In 1948 the hypothetical year of crisis was 1952; in 1949 it was 1954; last year it was 1956.) As their economies began to creak and their political supporters to groan under the strain, European leaders tried to persuade Dean Acheson & Co. to spread the effort thinner over a longer period. Winston Churchill was roundly condemned in the U.S. last year for proclaiming a stretch-out. Now the U.S. talked the same language...
...Truman seemed to favor lengthy vacations. In March of 1949, he and his little family spent two weeks in the surf and sunshine at Key West. During this time the Atlantic Treaty Pact was signed, and he communicated daily with Secretary of State Acheson and other Department officials. He followed this "work while you play" pattern throughout his seven years in office. Roughly twelve percent of his first three months as Chief Executive was spent at vacation retreats...
...Washington he also served as a consultant to ECA, and as foreign policy advisor to Dewey in his 1948 campaign. He edited a book of Dean Acheson's papers. In 1949, he returned to Harvard as visiting lecturer and was made an associate professor...
...Janeiro, Brazil awarded former Secretary of State Dean Acheson the Order of the Southern Cross...
...members of the junior class gather to await the whack on the back that will send 90 of them to the six great Senior societies. William Howard Taft had sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror. They did not even joke about the approaching ordeal. No one was so sure of election but that the possible rejection of some chum cast its gloom...