Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mask of Youth. Dulles went back to Sullivan & Cromwell, began a brilliant advance through major international assignments: he was counsel for a group of U.S. bondholders in the collapse of the Kreuger & Toll Swedish match trust, handled legal work on the $125 million J. P. Morgan & Co. loan to defeated...
As a topflight Presbyterian layman (his daughter Lillias, wife of Manhattan publicist Robert Hinshaw, is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary), Dulles began to devote more and more time to considering the relationship of church and state in foreign policy, attended conferences and talks on the topic across the U.S...
Crossroads Campaign. At World War II's end, Dulles moved to the peacemaking level. Cordell Hull, President Roosevelt's Secretary of State, consulted him on "nonpartisanship." Roosevelt sent him as an adviser to the founding conference of the U.N. at San Francisco, where he and Michigan's...
In 1949 New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey appointed Dulles to a U.S. Senate vacancy, and four months later, after a crossroads campaign to win and hold the seat, the Wall Street lawyer was roundly defeated by Democratic ex-Governor Herbert Lehman. An early supporter of Eisenhower over...
Conscience of Freedom. To the secretaryship Foster Dulles brought all the years of family tradition, the skills of a long diplomatic apprenticeship, the craftsmanship of a topflight international lawyer-and an unswerving faith in his mission. Thus uniquely endowed, he held the free world's battle lines with his...