Word: forrestall
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In barren quarters in a Washington office building on H Street that had no rugs, no safe and only borrowed furniture, the executive directors of the bank held their first meeting. Diplomatically, the U.S. informed them that it has not yet selected the Bank's president. What this meant...
*Leahy, Truman, Mitscher, Forrestal.
Pauley has already done two odd jobs for Harry Truman as reparations chief in Germany and Japan. But they didn't put any real handle on the Pauley name. If confirmed by the Senate, Oilman Pauley will probably slide into the Navy Secretaryship when Secretary Forrestal resigns this spring...
The master of ceremonies was Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. In the row of admirals' heads in the paneled Navy Department board room, his cotton top stood out like a white flag. While Secretary Forrestal smiled approval, 60-year-old Admiral Nimitz formally presented the new cast of characters...
Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal had made no bones about the fact that he wanted to resign, but beyond that he was keeping his plans strictly to himself. He was bitterly .opposed to the Army-Navy merger-many a Washington politico guessed that the President's advocacy of the...