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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...
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...
...repeal of prohibition, a friend of Chicago Security Dealer Howard R. Walton's suggested that he go into the liquor business. Said Walton: "Count me out. I don't know anything about it." But by 1934 he thought better of it, joined the sales staff, of Gooderham & Worts, subsidiary of Canada's Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts Limited (Canadian Club, Ballantine's, William Penn...
...Under Secretary, and Jimmy Byrnes's key man, was Dean Gooderham Acheson, 52, who had resigned as an Assistant Secretary just three days before. He had quit because he found it hard to live the life of a diplomat on $9,000 a year, was persuaded to come back to higher responsibilities-at just $1,000 a year more...