Word: bullitts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington the ex-Ambassador to France, William C. Bullitt, is advance man with trial-balloon speeches; and Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. has long been assigned the problem of the U.S. ultimate peace aims-which he has boiled down to three words, "Peace without empire." And the President is coming more & more to depend on two ex-bankers Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, now on a mission to London, and Robert Abercrombie Lovett, ex-banker, now Assistant Secretary...
...Maryland Hunt Cup race, the Iroquois (three miles, 18 jumps) turned out to be tough. Galsac, the favorite, bowed a tendon on the next-to-last jump. Another horse broke a leg, was destroyed. Winner was Rockmayne, a bay gelding racing in the colors of Louisville's Barbara Bullitt, cousin of Ambassador William Bullitt. His time: 5 min., 41 2/5 sec. Her prize: $1,000 and a leg on an old silver cup made in 1820 for the Earl of Coventry...
...Ambassador Bullitt, speaking in behalf of the United China Relief drive, put the case for Chinese aid in the sharpest terms yet. "We have not yet been attacked by Germany, Italy and Japan for one reason and one reason only-they have not been able to get at us. . . . The Chinese have kept the Japanese so fully occupied that they have hesitated to add a sea war against the British or ourselves to their land war with China. . . . To help China is to help ourselves. They are fighting . . . on what is literally-in a strategic sense-our western front...
...President left Washington to fish off Florida, he called Coy to the White House, with ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt, Budget Bureau Director Harold D. Smith, and ever-present Adviser Hopkins, outlined Coy's new job: to create a Division of Home Defense, coordinating services of volunteer groups all over...
...conferred with Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Colonel Donovan, home from the wars. He went over Lauchlin Currie's final report on his trip to China. He talked over the setup of a "home defense" for the U. S. in a conference with ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Assistant Federal Security Administrator Wayne Coy, Budget Director Harold Smith, Harry Hopkins. Before traintime he saw Secretary of War Stimson, talked with William Knudsen about appointments to the National Defense Mediation Board. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones rode on the Florida-bound special with him. At Jacksonville the President paused...