Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Maloney soon had the answer. He had Bowles made OPA chief for Connecticut. Then, after Leon Henderson was forced out by irate Congressmen and Prentiss Brown failed to win friends with a policy of appeasement, Maloney told Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes that Bowles was the man to head OPA...
If Britain and Russia knew what they wanted, the U.S. was not so certain. America's spur-of-the-moment style of diplomacy was neatly explained last week at Jimmy Byrnes's press conference. Asked if he expected Russian and British troops to withdraw from Iran as scheduled...
Twelve days after Jimmy Byrnes published what he vowed was Yalta's last secret agreement, New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews got on the trail of what he thought was another one in Rome. He said "an unimpeachable source" had seen the text of a secret agreement by...
Last week, after many turnings, Averell Harriman's chosen path led him into a State Department reception room in Washington. Greying at 54, but still lean and handsome, he had just flown to the U.S. from Moscow. The President had appointed his successor-shrewd, driving Lieut. General Walter Bedell...
Said Jimmy Byrnes: "For exceptionally distinguished conduct. . . in a position of great responsibility. . . ." A little self consciously Harriman thanked him. He unpinned the medal after Byrnes left, laid it down. He answered questions as politely and cautiously as ever. But when the newsmen filed out he stared curiously at the...