Word: ex-ambassador
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Bazy also tried another tack. She called a long list of potential backers, including such conservative millionaires as Sears, Roebuck's Chairman General Robert Wood, ex-Ambassador to England Joseph Kennedy, and Texas Oilmen H. L. Hunt, Sid Richardson, Hugh Roy Cullen and Clint Murchison. Before her 45 hours were up, she had pledges for about $4,000,000, but when she asked the colonel for time to raise more, he said "No, no, no." The colonel was determined to sell to Meyer because he respected him as a professional newspaperman. The colonel did not want to sell...
...letter did not mention Senator McCarthy's name but it was obviously an attack on his methods and philosophy and those of the State Department's Security Administrator, Scott McCleod. It was signed by Norman Armour, onetime Ambassador to Spain; Joseph C. Grew, pre-World War II Ambassador to Japan; William Phillips, ex-Ambassador to Italy; Robert Woods Bliss, former Ambassador to Argentina; and G. Rowland Shaw, former Assistant Secretary of State. (Eld er Statesmen Grew and Armour were recently asked by Secretary of State Dulles to make recommendations for the improvement of the Foreign Service.) "Recently...
Mailed from Washington last week to individuals and organizations all over the U.S. were thousands of mimeographed requests for signatures on a petition addressed to the President of the U.S. The petition's seven sponsors made an impressive list of American leaders from both parties: ex-President Herbert Hoover, ex-Ambassador (to Japan) Joseph C. Grew, ex-Governor (NJ.) Charles Edison, Republican Senator (N.J.) H. Alexander Smith, Democratic Senator (Ala.) John Sparkman, Republican Representative (Minn.) Walter H. Judd, Democratic Representative (Mass.) John W. McCormack. The petition...
DESPITE talk of free convertibility of sterling, there is little immediate hope of it. Ex-Ambassador to Britain Lewis Douglas has advised President Eisenhower that before convertibility can work, both U.S. imports of British goods and U.S. investments in Britain will have to rise considerably, and dollar guarantees will have to be made on sterling loans by British banks within the Commonwealth...
...EX-AMBASSADOR Lewis Douglas, asked by the President to survey economic conditions in the sterling area, has turned in such an optimistic report on trade progress there that the White House is temporarily keeping it under wraps, lest it provide ammunition for Congressmen opposed to extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act. A big point in the report: a warning that the U.S. must ease trade restrictions as U.S. aid declines...