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Besides Dunn, the only other member of Ed Stettinius' team whom Byrnes kept in his old job was Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, an ex-cotton broker, millionaire, friend of Jesse Jones, and shrewd economic horse trader currently negotiating postwar loans with the British (see INTERNATIONAL). For Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs, he picked barrel-shaped Spruille Braden, who talked tough to the Argentines. For Assistant Secretary in charge of administration he chose 33-year-old Colonel Frank McCarthy, fresh off General Marshall's staff...
Observation Offer. The spy-scared Russians refused to permit UNRRA observers to oversee the distribution of relief, but were willing to cut their original $700,000,000 request to $320,000,000. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton and Britain's Philip Noel-Baker agreed to offer Russia $240 million and still insisted that Russia admit observers. The conference ended with the still-unsettled Russian question in the lap of the Central Committee...
...Manhattan's favorite tabloid characters got married last week. The Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 36, wing-collared pastor of Harlem's big Abyssinian Baptist Church and New York's first Negro Congressman, took as a wife (his second) round-eyed, plump Hazel Scott, 25, Bach-to-boogie pianist. Their wedding should have been a tabloid editor's dream - a cast of stars, and a comedy of errors...
...Cohen would be a key figure in the State Department. So, apparently, would be able Assistant Secretary William L. Clayton, at whose appointment last December left-wingers had raised a wailing cry of anguish. To Will Clayton, in Jimmy Byrnes's first week, went new duties. He was appointed U.S. member of the slow-moving United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Council, which was bitterly in need of Businessman Clayton's energy and hard-headed smartness...
...Argentina, said Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton, there were 104 German "spearhead" firms. Not one had been completely eliminated...