Word: bullitts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Frank Gannett, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Bullitt, Columnist Walter Winchell. For Winchell, Vishinsky reserved his choicest invective: "The new American Baron Munchausen, famous . . . for his utterly absurd lies...
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...
Married. Anne Moen Bullitt, 23, dark-haired daughter of Philadelphia's William Bullitt, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia and France; and Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle, 25, son of Philadelphia's Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., onetime U.S. Ambassador to Poland; she for the second time, he for the first; in Washington...
...relations with Russia, the U.S. has rejected two extreme views of what Russia really wants. The leading spokesmen of these opposed views were Henry Wallace and William C. Bullitt (ex-Ambassador to Moscow). The Wallace view, in brief, was that, once Russia feels secure against attack, she will stop expanding and start providing the long-promised socialist Utopia for her own people. The Bullitt view was that the Bolshevik leaders are irrevocably committed by the "Communist creed" to world domination, and that nothing will stop them but force, the sooner applied, the better...
...Ambassador William C. Bullitt, badly injured in a traffic accident in 1945, went into a Manhattan hospital for a checkup on his spine, possibly an operation...