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Rome: Clare Boothe Luce will retire by Jan. 1, be succeeded by San Francisco Industrialist (Crown Zellerbach Corp.) James D. Zellerbach, who has done Government duty in the United Nations, the International Labor Organization and as head (1948-50) of an EGA mission to Italy...
...been Maggie's byword. He has never lost a campaign (and is today the 14th-ranking member of the Senate). Representing a state whose 1,134 miles of shoreline and harbors make him sensitive to the merchant marine, he sponsored the bill providing that 50% of postwar EGA foreign aid be carried abroad in U.S. ships. He has worked ably to improve air service to the Northwest, business opportunities for Washington pulp mills, the catch for the salmon fishermen. Warren Magnuson's name is on no momentous legislation of the last twelve years, but this omission does...
...Production Management; 1941, special missions to London and then to Moscow for President Roosevelt; 1941-42, Lend-Lease expediter in London with rank of minister; 1943-46, Ambassador to Russia; 1946, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; 1946-48, Secretary of Commerce; 1948-50, roving EGA ambassador in Europe; 1950-51, Special Assistant to the President; 1951-53, Director of Mutual Security. * In 1941 Harriman was at the Atlantic Charter meeting with Churchill and Roosevelt, and at their later conference in Washington; in 1942 he was with Churchill and Roosevelt in Washington, with Churchill and Stalin...
...reserve colonel, Strong during World War II was chief of the liaison branch of the Army Service Forces' international division. He came back into the Govern ment in 1947 as chief of the EGA Loan Division, joined the Ike-for-President forces in 1951. He and his wife are personal friends of Crown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway. Strong's appointment was held up for 3½ months because of security investigations into reports that he had been socially acquainted with Alger Hiss...
...bolstered in Indo-China, expect to come out with a lower MSA total than they got last year). ¶ Some $5,250,000,000 of the $5.8 billion will be spent for military hardware and other support. Economic aid (hitherto the prime concern of MSA and its predecessor, EGA) will be an indirect result of military buying from European suppliers or subsidies for European arms plants. ¶ About $550 million will be earmarked for continuing technical and economic development (Point Four) in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America...