Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...skies an disgorged its immaculate cargo, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, complete with walking stick. This was what the crowd was there for; they greeted him enthusiastically. "Hats were thrown in the air and shouts of 'Viva America' and 'Bravo Welles' resounded as the tall, dignified diplomat debarked," reported Joseph Driscoll to the Herald Tribune. The Argentine delegation was caught in the multitude and forced to listen to the celebration...
...asked to triple its tank output (its tank arsenal is already the world's largest), double its output of anti-aircraft guns. One sign of total collaboration-to-come between Detroit and Washington: G.M. created a new War Emergency Committee under Vice Chairman Donaldson Brown, and sent arch-diplomat Dick Grant to Washington for the duration...
Other members were all top-drawer officers: Major General Frank Ross McCoy, bemedaled World War I troop commander and diplomat; Brigadier General Joseph T. McNarney, World War I airman, General Staffer on War Plans; Admiral William Harrison Standley, dynamic onetime Chief of Naval Operations; Rear Admiral Joseph Mason ("Bull") Reeves, ex-CINCUS. (All but McNarney are retired officers...
Died. William Banks Caperton, 86, oldest retired Admiral of the U.S. Navy, Commander of the Pacific Fleet in World War I, when he cleared German raiders from the South Atlantic and operated the naval patrol off South America. A diplomat as well as a fighter, he cruised on courtesy visits to the Latin American republics in 1919, won the praise of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt for being of "inestimable value" in strengthening U.S.-Latin American ties...
...good grace, he returned to the U.S. as Russia's Ambassador, entrusted with the vital job of arranging war collaboration. He arrived in a capital shocked by news of Japan's attack. Maxim Litvinoff's pleasure was tempered with gravity: Soviet Russia's greatest diplomat had stepped into the greatest responsibility he had ever known...