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Midwest Republican Randall went to Paris in 1948 as the steel consultant to the Truman Administration's ECA. He came back with a permanent interest in Europe's industry, a newly acquired ability to speak French, and a conviction that the U.S. would have to deal with the world's problems for a long time to come. "Chicago," he said, "is not so far from the Ruhr as people think...
...Washington he also served as a consultant to ECA, and as foreign policy advisor to Dewey in his 1948 campaign. He edited a book of Dean Acheson's papers. In 1949, he returned to Harvard as visiting lecturer and was made an associate professor...
...avidly sought the appointment (left vacant by the death last October of Francis P. Matthews), and has much to recommend him: he is an official of the Central Intelligence Agency, an authority on Gaelic culture, and he lived for some time in Ireland as a member of the postwar ECA mission there (his fourth, Irish-born child is named Sean). A Yale graduate and Princeton Ph.D., Episcopalian Taft has taught English at Yale, Maryland and Haverford, has kept up his Celtic studies as a hobby. He will be the first Gaelic-speaking U.S. ambassador to Ireland...
...Interim Committee of the European Defense Community. Baltimore-born, Princeton-trained Dave Bruce has mixed law practice (1921-26), banking and private business (1928-40) with Government service: he was a vice-consul in Rome in the '20s, Assistant Secretary of Commerce in 1947-48, chief of the ECA in France in 1948-49, then became in turn Ambassador to France and Under Secretary of State in Washington...
...year before was turned into a $3,000,000 profit. When World War II came, the company was ready to take on $1.2 billion in war contracts, turning out 198,000 trucks, 64,000 engines for Flying Fortresses, and 16,000 amphibious Weasels. When Hoffman left to become ECA administrator, Vance became president as well as chairman...