Word: departmentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting On. In San Antonio, Marcello Martinez, 118, visited the State Department of Public Welfare to ask whether he was eligible to receive an old-age pension.
At first, Acheson was concerned mostly with economic affairs and liaison with Congress, where he was well liked. Later, he got deeper into policy. During the war and immediately after it, Acheson favored "sympathetic understanding" of the Russians. It was a policy opposed by another Assistant Secretary, Adolf A. Berle...
Then Mr. Truman exploded a bomb in the State Department which would cause vibrations not only on the Hill, but around the capital and in all the capitals of the world. He announced the resignation of faithful, forceful George Catlett Marshall, and nominated as his successor Dean Gooderham Acheson.
The Minnesota campus was full of New Deal-talk. Humphrey plunged enthusiastically into the midst of it. He gulped down the New Deal ideology, lock, stock & pork-barrel. He became a big wheel in the political science department, a voluble, incessant talker-long on persuasiveness, a little short on logic...
History Professor John K. Fairbank, professor of Government, Rupert Emerson, and Edwin O. Reischauer of the History department will appear in a symposium on the Far Eastern problem. Bruce Hopper and Carl J. Friedrich, both professors of Government, will also take part in the school's program.