Word: macleish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starter, out went three top members of the Stettinius team: mild, grey Under Secretary Joseph Clark Grew and Assistant Secretaries Archibald MacLeish and Julius C. Holmes. No tears were shed by those who thought Joe Grew lacked the drive and imagination for his job. Most Washingtonians agreed that MacLeish was not happily placed as the department's publicist, and few knew precisely what Julius Holmes had done (he was supposed to streamline the creaky department...
Married. Mary Hillard MacLeish, 21, schoolteacher daughter of Poet Archibald MacLeish. Assistant Secretary of State and ex-Librarian of Congress; and Navy Ensign Karl Grimm, 22; in Alexandria...
When these assorted bits were assembled with the Smuts version, the total made no sense. At that point Poet Archibald MacLeish, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, returned to San Francisco and was assigned the redrafting job. He tried to boil the whole thing down to 100 words, but the coordinating committee threw his version out. It was too literary...
Archibald MacLeish, now an Assistant Secretary of State, was succeeded as Librarian of Congress by a professor-librarian with whom the poet had sometimes clashed: Acting Librarian Dr. Luther Harris Evans, a 42-year-old Texan...
...showed the effect of this sort of talk. Dean Virginia Gildersleeve thought it a shame that the Pre amble, at least, was not rid of legal writing so that it would be an inspiration to the world. Fraser agreed. He suggested that the Preamble be given to Poet Archibald MacLeish, Assistant Secretary of State, so that he could imbue it with "life and soul and spirit...