Word: crowley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy stroke of the pen the President made one of the most thoroughgoing Government reorganizations in New Deal history. He abolished the Lend-Lease Administration (Edward R. Stettinius), the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations (Herbert Lehman), the Office of Economic Warfare (Leo Crowley), and the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination (Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...Crowley. To the newly created Foreign Economic Administration the President appointed Leo Crowley. This, too had a special significance (see below...
...these moves the President moved with both the present and the future in mind-diplomatically toward an economic viewpoint in foreign affairs (Crowley, Stettinius, Harriman); militarily toward action (General Marshall); domestically toward conservatism, sensible production-scheduling, less red tape...
...their place the President set up the Foreign Economic Administration, put in shrewd, ambitious Leo Crowley as its head. Leonine Leo also took authority over RFC subsidiaries dealing with foreign economic problems (Metals Reserve Co. and Rubber Reserve Co.), retained the board chairmanship of the U.S. Commercial Corp. through which he controls all foreign purchases...
This made snow-haired Leo Crowley (ten years ago a relatively obscure Wisconsin businessman) the czar of all foreign economic dealings, which are the guts of foreign relations. Significantly Crowley will work with the State Department, but answers only to the President...