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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...replace punctilious career diplomat Jefferson Caffery, 63, as ambassador to France, Truman and Secretary of State Dean Acheson wanted a man who was enough of an economist to keep abreast of French financial crises, enough of a diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wanted: Iron Men | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...afraid to go to the dentist, the Administration finally broke down under demands from Capitol Hill last week and put a first-year price tag on the arms to accompany the North Atlantic Treaty. It wasn't as bad as predicted, after all. For the coming fiscal year, Dean Acheson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S. planned to provide the treaty nations of Western Europe with $1.13 billion worth of military supplies (plus an additional $320 million primarily for Greece and Turkey). Perhaps half the equipment would come from U.S. war surplus arsenals, so the actual cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Tab | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...four hours behind closed doors in the committee's gloomy Capitol committee room, Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson answered some questions, left more unanswered. Western Europe would get no immediate boost in its military strength: the first year's supplies would simply reinforce established divisions, chiefly with light equipment. But what would the future cost be? Nobody knew. Which nations would get how much? That was up to the discretion of the President and not the countries involved. Significantly, it would be the Secretary of State and not the Secretary of Defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Tab | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...Dean Sperry of the Divinity School closed the conference with an appeal to the delegates to "recapture the true spirit of self sacrifice" that once pervaded social service work. He also urged Harvard volunteers to make true the desires of some of the thousand underprivileged Boston boys who want to come to Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Colleges May Increase Social Service | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...conference is under the auspices of the Graduate Student's Committee for World Peace, whose temporary chairman is Eugene Sparrow 2Dv. The Committee was established at the bull session, and has been recognized by Dean Wild's office, publicity director Max Blue-stone Sp explained last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peace Rally Is Set for Next Friday Night | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

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