Word: lende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President, reshuffling drastically all along the line, now definitely dumped out Sumner Welles, who had resigned weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 6). In a move that surprised many he replaced him with Edward Reilly Stettinius, 42, ex-vice president of General Motors, ex-chairman of U.S. Steel and now ex-Lend-Lease Administrator. Cordell Hull himself, said Washington wise men, had asked for the steelman who looks like a tall Charlie Chaplin...
...policies. Both are personally attractive, able administrators. Neither has a record of great creative achievement nor a reputation as a man of ideas. Ed Stettinius' record, indeed, in the early defense-production days, was so badly spotted that he was kicked upstairs to the check-signing job as Lend-Lease Administrator, (TIME, March 10, 1941, et seq.). Behind him, in OPM, he left 18,500 applications for priorities unacted on. But he has since impressed many with his careful administration of Lend-Lease...
...heavy stroke of the pen the President made one of the most thoroughgoing Government reorganizations in New Deal history. He abolished the Lend-Lease Administration (Edward R. Stettinius), the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations (Herbert Lehman), the Office of Economic Warfare (Leo Crowley), and the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination (Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...West. The Red Army's Red Star was still loudly asserting that no second front had come into being. The new outlet for official unofficial Russian views, War and the Working Class, was politely calling departed U.S. Ambassador William Standley a spreader of statements (about publicity for Lend-Lease) "which did not correspond to the truth" and labeling AMG as too closely concerned with "security for Anglo-Saxon banking, industrial and trade circles." In London a Free Germany Movement emerged, perhaps to match Moscow's Free Germany Committee. Like its Russian counterpart, the Movement plugged unity...
...London since 1941 as Franklin Roosevelt's "defense expediter," Harriman became a Lend-Lease liaison officer between the U.S. and Great Britain, did a bang-up job, journeyed to Russia with Winston Churchill to confer with Joseph Stalin. He is said to have made a great impression on the Soviet leader...