Word: crowley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee: Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury; Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Secretary of State; Leo T. Crowley, Foreign Economic Administrator...
...announcement. Said Mr. Roosevelt: the U.S. is immediately redeeming that part of the Italian invasion currency used to pay U.S. troops. It is doing this by setting up in the U.S. a dollar credit for Italy. Italy can spend the credit on food, medicine, industrial machinery, etc. through Leo Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration, the deliveries to be made in any free space on the already heavily loaded Army ships...
...become apparent that the Government's most active member of this team will be the Foreign Economic Administration. Last week Oscar Cox, FEA's general counsel, was still studying a letter drafted in the White House. The letter, from Mr. Roosevelt to FEA's boss. Leo Crowley, outlined the postwar duties of FEA. Cox, 38, whose hobby is mountain climbing, has a nimble and imaginative legally trained mind (M.I.T. and Yale Law School), which enables him to have a finger in every Washington pie. He wrote the first draft of the Lend-Lease bill in 20 minutes...
...press conference, the President announced that he had written a letter to Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley. The letter was a full set of instructions for FEA policies when the war in Europe is over, including a section on "Control of the War-Making Power of Germany...
White was the key member of the U.S. delegation of 47 (200, including secretaries), headed by Henry Morgenthau, with Federal Reserve's Marriner Eccles, Foreign Economic Administrator Leo Crowley and State Department's Dean Acheson as colleagues. Other members of the U.S. delegation included Edward Eagle Brown, lawyer-president of Chicago's First National Bank, Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson, Vassar Economics Professor Mabel Newcomer, and a quartet of Congressmen from the House and Senate Banking and Currency Committees...