Word: duggan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring of 1917, when most of the U.S. had its mind on war, a Manhattan college professor named Stephen Duggan had his mind on the peace that would come after. His theory: one big trouble between nations was misunderstanding of each other's ways. Many a well-heeled U.S. youth had studied painting in Paris, or philosophy mit beer at Heidelberg; but practically no foreign students had seen and sampled U.S. ideas and attitudes. His proposal: two-way scholarships between U.S. and foreign universities...
...took his idea to Nicholas Murray Butler, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and two years later found himself director of the Carnegie-endowed Institute of International Education. With $60,000 a year from Carnegie, Duggan set to work arranging "marriages" between U.S. and European universities, selected the U.S. students to go abroad on scholarships, placed and chaperoned the visiting students, also promoted faculty exchanges. In its first 25 years the Institute placed 2,046 Europeans and Asiatics and 1,131 Latin Americans in U.S. universities, sent 2,344 U.S. students abroad...
...Last May Duggan, at 75 keen-eyed, white-bearded and talkative, began to look around for a successor. Last week, beaming Stephen Duggan announced that the man had been found...
Robert Urquhart Duggan...
...with every top diplomat in sight. (In England he was even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this was the fault of feuding Cordell Hull, who was not keen on reorganization, anyway. Stettinius is proud of his attempt to redecorate the department's archaic architectural monstrosity. He created a pretty press room, increased the wattage of lights and removed the desks of messengers from...