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Died. Dr. George Coles Stebbins, 99, author of some 1,500 hymns (most famed: There Is a Green Hill Far Away}, choir director who supplied the music for Evangelist Dwight L. Moody's Anglo-American campaigns (in the 187Os) to "Reduce the Population of Hell by a Million Souls"; in Catskill...
...Crowley was in the midst of the Anglo-American economics talks (see INTERNATIONAL) when he sat down and wrote out his resignation from FDIC, a post he had held since the dark days of 1934. In his letter to the President he said nothing about resigning from FEA, but Harry Truman promptly accepted his resignation from both jobs. Then the President wiped out FEA, handed its most important functions to the State Department...
After attending his last Cabinet meeting, Banker Crowley admitted that he would attend no more Anglo-American talks. Of the President, he said: "We have always seen eye to eye." Then he strode off, a little stiffly, to devote himself to his job as Board Chairman of Standard Gas & Electric at a reported salary of $75,000 a year...
...diplomats reckon time, the job was done with breath-taking speed. Just seven days after Petroleum Administrator Harold Ickes arrived in London, he sat down with Britain's Fuel Administrator Emanuel Shinwell and signed a new Anglo-American oil agreement...
...stiffening of the U.S. attitude on eastern Europe, Russia had climbed down a little way. It realized at last that the Western powers held a potent threat: they could refuse to sign peace treaties with puppet governments in Eastern Europe. For a fortnight the Russian press raged against Anglo-American interference with internal affairs of sovereign Balkan nations. London denied the charge of Balkan intrigue. Once the U.S. and Britain had taken a firm stand, direct intervention was not necessary to encourage democratic elements in eastern Europe which looked to the West for both economic aid and political sympathy...