Word: dumbarton
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...world," will receive their first American showing in the Christmas issue of Life Magazine, if the editors' current plans are not changed. Credit for uncovering these art treasures must go to the Byzantine Institute, which is staffed and financed largely by University professors and alumni, and to Dumbarton Oaks, the Byzantine research center owned by the University...
...entered the diplomatic service in 1924, worked in Teheran, Rome and at Whitehall. During World War II he held an important post in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, then took charge of postwar international planning. He played a key advisory role at Dumbarton Oaks, Yalta, San Francisco, did much of the British spadework for U.N. and the North Atlantic pact. Since 1948, as Deputy Under Secretary of State, he has been the trusted (and devoted) assistant to Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin...
...addition, Blake served the University in several administrative capacities, holding the post of Director of the University Library from 1923 to 1937, and Syndic of the University Press. He also served, from its beginning, as a Senior Fellow of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., and as a trustee of the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
Persistent Suspicion. Still no action was taken on the charge made by Chambers. By 1946 Alger Hiss had reached a position of some eminence in the Department of State. He had served as executive secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, as a technical adviser at the Yalta Conference and as secretary general of the founding convention of U.N. Suspicion had brushed him, but the only basis for it was the unsubstantiated word of Chambers...
...good enough for Oliver Wendell Holmes, and...I shall summon, with all due reverence, the shade of that greatest member of the Supreme Court of the United States"" The defense attorney went on dramatically ticking off the "fiery crucibles" in which Hiss had represented the State Department-Yalta . . . Dumbarton Oaks . . . San Francisco. "Yea," he trumpeted, "though I walk through the valley of death I shall not fear, for I am with Alger Hiss...