Word: achesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department No. 3 is that segment of U.S. foreign relations which Franklin Roosevelt reserves for himself, working through miscellaneous aides. This segment has expanded ever since the start of World War II, includes matters handled by Assis tant Secretaries Adolf Berle and Dean Acheson,and others handled by such quasi-foreign-relations agencies as OEW, OFRRO and the Nelson Rockefeller Committee...
Chairman of the committee will be brainy, sartorially elegant Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State. Other members: Herbert H. Lehman, Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (Lend-Lease), Milo Perkins (Board of Economic Warfare), Henry Morgenthau (Treasury...
After consultation with his committee, Diplomat Acheson will appoint a field director for each liberated (or to-be-liberated) territory. The director will act as operations manager for all the agencies represented on the committee...
...brown seed clumps can be milled into lightweight, water-resistant fluff suitable for stuffing and padding-and expected to work satisfactorily in life jackets. The discovery of this homely substitute is credited to Dr. Charles Frederick Burgess, thinker-tinker president of Burgess Battery Co., 1942 winner of the Acheson Medal, electrochemistry's highest award...
...Working with the British in the U.S. are Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary Dean Acheson, and the division that handled the reciprocal trade agreements. Working with the British in London is U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...