Word: gooderham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin, quietly and elegantly garbed, in appearance, at least, the perfect diplomat. Despite seven years of Government service, many more years as an attorney with one of the nation's great law firms, he was still something of an enigma, even to his friends. Who was Dean Gooderham Acheson...
...Canada in 1881. He fought with the Queen's Own Rifles in the Indian Rebellion, then went into the Anglican ministry. After serving as curate of St. George's Church in New York, he settled down in the rectory in Middletown. He had married Eleanor Gertrude Gooderham (pronounced Good-rum), of the Gooderham & Worts distillers' clan; Gooderham money built a 16-room brick house on elmlined Broad Street in which the Achesons lived, and Mother was a social arbiter. But Father ran the family, and off & on, the spiritual life of Middletown...
...Good Oar. The scion of a modest Gooderham inheritance was sent to a primary boarding school in Pomfret, Conn., then to Groton, which left another mark: he learned that he was of the elite, chosen and trained to serve, and to solve problems. With the notion of getting closer to the world, young Dean undertook a romantic, singlehanded journey into the Canadian north woods as cook and handyman with a surveying gang...
Liberal Education. Dean Gooderham Acheson, now 55, is a tall, tweedy mixture of dignity and good humor, and by no means as stuffy as his pukka sahib mustache makes him look. His British-born father, Edward Campion Acheson, was Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut, his mother was a daughter of the wealthy Gooderham whiskey distilling family in Canada. Young Dean went to Groton, on to Yale for his A.B., then to Harvard for his law degree. He got into government as a protege of Harvard's Felix Frankfurter and a secretary to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis...
Then Mr. Truman exploded a bomb in the State Department which would cause vibrations not only on the Hill, but around the capital and in all the capitals of the world. He announced the resignation of faithful, forceful George Catlett Marshall, and nominated as his successor Dean Gooderham Acheson...