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...spotted Humphrey during World War II while Humphrey was serving with quiet effectiveness on the Department of Commerce's Business Advisory Council. Clay saw Humphrey again in postwar Germany; Clay was in command of the U.S. occupation zone, and Humphrey was making a survey of German industry for ECA's Paul Hoffman. Clay knew Humphrey only slightly-and still does-but he was impressed by the rare combination of "forward-looking imaginativeness" and "complete normalcy...
...company law yers, after a stormy meeting with Attor ney General James McGranery, called the offer "outrageous blackmail" and said they would never accept such an "insulting" proposal. Meanwhile, the companies, except Gulf, were still awaiting trial of another suit charging them with over pricing oil sold to ECA...
Treaty Negotiator: More & more, Dulles took part in postwar diplomacy. But he was quick to see and to warn publicly against the menace of Communism, and became a prime target of Moscow vilification ("warmonger . . . falsifier of facts"). He firmly supported the Administration's European policies (ECA, NATO). After a round of international parleys, giving Republican counsel to Democratic Secretaries of State Byrnes, Marshall and Acheson, he left bipartisan diplomacy for a fling at politics, took an appointment by Governor Thomas Dewey as interim New York Senator (June-December 1949). Running for the seat at the polls, he lost...
Personality: Inconspicuous is the word for George Humphrey. He has made few public speeches, held few press conferences. To avoid the press while on the ECA mission in London, he went up & down the service stairs at Claridge's Hotel, and had his wife screen all visitors and telephone calls. He is sharp of eye and of mind, has a square jaw and a balding head, holds his middle-sized frame ramrod straight. A horseman and hunter, he has fine stables at his 150-acre estate in Lake County, 24 miles out of Cleveland, a stable of brood mares...
...defeated by a fillibuster, Ives proposed a cloture bill. Besides favoring FEPC, he has supported the Anti-Lynching and Anti-Poll tax bills. He pleased New York's large groups of immigrants by campaigning against the Walter-McCarran Immigration Act. Ives is strong on foreign aid, having advocated ECA, MSA, Point Four, and aid to Korea...