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Advocate & Executor. But he remained loyal to Roosevelt. Acheson was one of the torchbearers in the 1940 campaign to put U.S. aid squarely behind Britain and France. He and three lawyer colleagues had written and made public a lawyer's brief supporting Roosevelt's right to swap the 50 U.S. destroyers for British bases in the Western Hemisphere. At the urging of Cordell Hull, Roosevelt invited Acheson back into his family as Assistant Secretary of State. Acheson gave up his law practice to take the $9,000-a-year...
...Malahide papers were only the beginning. In 1936, a second wandering scholar announced that he had stumbled upon another cache of papers scattered throughout Scotland's Fettercairn House, home of Lord Clinton, descendant of Boswell's executor Sir William Forbes. Under the terms of his deal with Lord Talbot, Colonel Isham claimed those papers too, and after years of wrangling over Boswell's will, won half of them from a Scottish court. The other half, which had been awarded to the heirs of Boswell's granddaughter, he bought. Meanwhile, Malahide had yielded yet another batch...
...Times-Herald, valued at around $7,000,000, was left to seven faithful executives. Overnight each of the seven became a millionaire. Her estate will even pay the inheritance taxes. The lucky seven: ¶ Editor-in-Chief Frank C. Waldrop, 42, who never crossed the boss, became an executor and trustee of her estate. Presiding at the press conference where the will was read, Waldrop told Washington newsmen with elaborate offhandedness: "After this meeting I invite anyone who cares to join me in the bar for a drink. For once the drinks are on the Times-Herald" ¶ General Manager...
...record since V-J day was a record of failure to seize & hold the initiative. Next to Marshall himself, there was no one better qualified to understand that record, and explain it, than Bob Lovett. As Under Secretary, he had been for the past nine months the prime executor of U.S. policy. As Marshall's second-in-command, and Acting Secretary for the 129 days that Marshall had been away from his post, Lovett had also carried the load of day-to-day decisions. His career as Under Secretary of State spanned three stages in the evolution...
Orders for the raid had come directly from Premier Maurice Duplessis, who (as Attorney General) is both executor and sponsor of the 1937 padlock law banning the use of premises for disseminating Communist propaganda "by any means whatsoever." In the 32 months before he went out of office in November 1939, Duplessis used the law eleven times. Until last week, he had not used it once since his return to power in August 1944. Now, with provincial elections just around the corner, the law seemed just the ticket for the anti-Red campaign which is supposed to bring in many...