Word: chiefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President made one appointment. He named John Foster Dulles, Tom Dewey's foreign-policy adviser, to substitute temporarily for George Marshall in Paris as chief of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. General Assembly, thus reaffirming his faith in the bipartisan foreign policy...
...visible wirepulling, showed no interest in kingmaking, and-except for visits with aging, trigger-tempered Teamster Chief Dan Tobin-he steered clear of smoke-filled rooms. With beet-faced vehemence, he denied a rumor which had gotten to Cincinnati before him-that he was hell bent to boot old Dan out of office and grab the teamsters' presidency for himself. "Mr. Tobin," he said, with dignity, "is like a father...
...chief trouble with European intellectuals, says Visson, is that they are bothered by "... a society which believed that to raise the living standard of the masses was more important than to bring to an even higher perfection the literary, philosophic or artistic achievements of the intellectual elite." Author Visson devotes much of his book to a rogue's gallery of brilliant and not-so-brilliant Europeans who have lately explored...
...described himself as "God's pamphleteer, [going] with the mobs of hungry men & women towards the great awakening." His relation with his island's straw-hatted jibaros is still pitched to that emotional key, but in eight years as President of the Insular Senate and chief of the ruling Popular Democrats he has also learned some sober facts of Puerto Rican life...
...Henry Johnston, HAA publicity chief, said last night that "we will act as we expect MIT would act if the pranksters had been Harvard students. MIT has the privilege of doing as it wishes...