Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take Atherton's place, President Truman last week named Laurence Adolph Steinhardt, 55, who had made a fortune as a Wall Street lawyer before Franklin Roosevelt gave him (1933) his first diplomatic job as minister to Sweden. In the last 15 years, few U.S. envoys have had it tougher than Larry Steinhardt. After three grueling years as ambassador in Moscow (through the Hitler-Stalin pact period and the Nazi invasion of Russia) he had three tense years in Ankara. As ambassador to Prague, he had just returned from leave in the U.S., where he underwent a serious operation, when...
...adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta. He had been secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences at which the United Nations ras brought to being. Then he had quit to become president (at $20,000 a year) of the $10 million Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in New York (he said that John Foster Dulles had urged him to take that...
...Minnesota, Harold Stassen finally came out for the re-election of Joe Ball, whom he had appointed to the Senate eight years ago. Ball had angered Stassen four years ago by supporting Franklin Roosevelt for reelection, has since differed with him on many issues, notably on labor legislation and aid to Europe. But Joe Ball needed all the help he could get to beat able Hubert Humphrey, Democratic mayor of Minneapolis...
...testimony before one committee. Next day she appeared before J. Parnell Thomas' House Un-American Activities Committee. There she got down to naming names. Who was that "man around the White House?" Elizabeth Bentley's reply startled her audience. He was, she said, Lauchlin Currie, one of Franklin Roosevelt's closest advisers, a White House special assistant for six years who had twice headed missions to China...
With low fuel consumption and big payloads, U.S. Lines President John M. Franklin is confident that the superliner can be operated at a profit...