Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barclay Acheson, director of the Reader's Digest's International Editions, started for Stockholm to set up a Swedish-language edition. En route, his flying boat crashed on the take-off from Botwood, Newfoundland, and broke in half. The front half sank immediately. Acheson was saved only because he had stepped to the rear of the plane for a smoke just before the crash. This half stayed afloat long enough for him to be rescued. He took up his interrupted trip a week or so later...
This week Acheson was off for Europe again by plane to start another Digest foreign edition. As far as the project itself was concerned, the hazards this time were even greater. The Digest plans to print 500,000 German-language copies a month in Munich, sell them in the American and British zones, starting next February. As there is little paper in the occupied zones, and as no money from those zones may be spent outside them, Acheson plans to print another German-language edition of 100,000 copies for sale in Switzerland. Then he hopes to use revenue from...
Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson made the challenge clear in a speech at Wesleyan University (see box). In New York, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Willard Thorp pointedly reminded U.S. businessmen and farmers that their present prosperity largely depends on foreign exports (see BUSINESS). In California, State Department Counselor Ben Cohen stated the shocking price as the Department has reckoned it -$5 to $6 billion a year for the next three or four years. What had not yet been mentioned was State's conviction that loans would not be enough: the money would have...
Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson, speaking at Wesleyan University's commencement exercises this week, made the bluntest public statement on U.S.-Soviet relations yet made by a U.S. official. Acheson is due to retire to private law practice June 30; his speech was his valedictory. Excerpts...
More than ever before, educators and politicians across the nation were using commencement platforms as sounding boards for political and economic remedies for an ailing world. The men who did included George Marshall, William Bullitt, and Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Only a few were old fashioned enough to avoid the merely topical, and even fewer managed to talk of commencement's traditional theme-the way to an intelligent and useful life-without bogging into platitude...