Word: nelsoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Ed Stettinius and his Latin American deputy, Nelson Rockefeller, the State Department seesawed back to Welles's way of doing things. At the Mexico City Conference last winter, such anti-totalitarians as Mexico's Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla led the Latin demand that Argentina's totalitarians be restored to hemispheric fellowship. At San Francisco, this process was completed by Argentina's admission to the world family...
...Paulo Red Cross worker recently investigated the leprosaria, substantiated many of the chronic complaints, and caused the firing of leprosarium director Dr. Sales Gomes. Likely result of the new hubbub: the sacking of his successor, Dr. Nelson de Campos...
...Byron Nelson, 33, golf's pro of pros, winner of 17 tourneys and $53,200 during the past year, was momentarily stymied in Spokane. Checking in for the Esmeralda Open (which he later won, making it 18 wins and $55,200), he asked for his hotel reservation and was told by the clerk: "I'm afraid not. All our rooms are being reserved for the golfers...
...fever, he fired a 68 to tie for the first-round lead in the $10.000 Dallas Open. But next day, woozy from sulfa, he slumped to 74. After that he could not catch Sam Snead (lately recovered from a broken arm), Jug Mc-Spaden or Byron Nelson. Hogan finished fourth with a 3-under-par. In the longer run he was a good bet to succeed wartime golf's king of the links, fast-greying Byron Nelson, now 18 Ibs. underweight after the nerve-wearing grind of winning 16 tournaments within a year...
Then from faraway Boston came a body blow. Nelson Rockefeller, the conciliatory U.S. Assistant Secretary of State in charge of Latin American affairs, stood up at a Pan-American dinner and denounced Argentina as "the black sheep" of the hemi sphere family...