Word: brokering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principal functions now. It was he whom the President first sent to meet Churchill and Stalin, and he who first suggested the Atlantic Charter meetings where Churchill and Roosevelt met for the first time. He has always been a broker in people?in short, a politician...
Then began a curious skirmish. Senators Claude Pepper of Florida and James E. Murray of Montana, who had voted against all the nominees because they did not like ex-Cotton Broker Will Clayton, hastily switched their votes. Pennsylvania's New Dealing Joe Guffey wanted to do likewise, but Committee Chairman Tom Connally drawled: "If I let you change your vote, are you agoin' to stay hitched?" Infuriated, Joe Guffey let his "nay" stand...
Into their vacancies went a whole new team, hand-picked by Ed Stettinius and approved by the President: > Ex-Cotton Broker Will Clayton, 64, retiring Surplus Property Administrator, to handle foreign economic affairs. Shrewd, wealthy Will Clayton, a longtime friend of Jesse Jones, will also take over the Department's civilian aviation policy, reporting directly to the President...
...United States Commercial Co.-a subsidiary of the Foreign Economic Administration. USCC will set the prices and prorate the merchandise among U.S. importers on a prewar quota basis. As long as such joint military-political control of trade by USCC is necessary, the importer is only a broker for a state monopoly of international commerce...
Ever since the President named Will Clayton as the Surplus War Property administrator last February, the grey, hard-fisted Texan has been a prime target for left-wing New Dealers. The hatchetmen have accused Will Clayton, the world's biggest cotton broker, of: 1) planning to handle surplus property solely in the interests of big business; 2) freezing out small farmers and veterans in the disposal of Government lands...