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The new Under Secretary, and Jimmy Byrnes's key man, was Dean Gooderham Acheson, 52, who had resigned as an Assistant Secretary just three days before. He had quit because he found it hard to live the life of a diplomat on $9,000 a year, was persuaded to...
Up from Groton. Secretary Acheson can be expected to add new life to Jimmy Byrnes's department. The son of an Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, he went to Groton and Yale (1915), was an ensign in World War I, took his law degree at Harvard. An honor graduate, he...
One of Under Secretary Acheson's closest friends is Ben Cohen, now counsel for the State Department. This, and the fact that he served his apprenticeship under Justice Brandeis, recommended him to the true New Dealers left in the Administration. They think that he is at best a little...
If Jimmy Byrnes does all the world-traveling he now plans, Dean Acheson will be Acting Secretary of State a good part of the time.
Secretary of State James Francis Byrnes, who was born on the wrong side of Charleston's famed King Street, still remembers how to talk tough. Last week he did.