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...They have soaked themselves in the rancid odor of capitalistic stupidity and greed. . . .'" With a note of triumph in his voice, the Senator asked: "Mr. MacLeish, do you think you would be able to bear, with your sensitive nostrils, standing in the same room with Ed Stettinius, Will Clayton, Mr. Grew and people like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Ordeal of a Bard | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Texas' shaggy-maned Tom Connally, minor statesman, had a painful afternoon. As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, it was his job to get Senate confirmation for four Presidential appointments to the State Department: Under Secretary Joseph C. Grew, Assistant Secretaries Will Clayton, Nelson Rockefeller and Archibald MacLeish. It should have been a routine matter, but the pesky Senate suddenly balked, stubbornly insisted on mulling the whole thing over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Few Questions | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...brought up fascinating side issues. A few Senators thought they detected the busy, ubiquitous hand of Harry Hopkins-and the Senate is never too busy to bombinate about Harry. Few had any criticism of Joseph Grew, a trained and tried career diplomat. But the big-money backgrounds of Businessmen Clayton and Rockefeller offered demagogues (and the left-wing press) a rare opportunity to orate against Wall Street. Anti-New Dealers saw a free chance to twang Poet MacLeish over the head with his own lyre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Few Questions | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...maneuver by Will Clayton, retiring Surplus Property Administrator, to dispose of $15 billion in Government-owned lands through "the hierarchy of the National Association of Real Estate Boards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: This Is Inexcusable | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

Into their vacancies went a whole new team, hand-picked by Ed Stettinius and approved by the President: > Ex-Cotton Broker Will Clayton, 64, retiring Surplus Property Administrator, to handle foreign economic affairs. Shrewd, wealthy Will Clayton, a longtime friend of Jesse Jones, will also take over the Department's civilian aviation policy, reporting directly to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: New Broom | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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