Word: pawleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed scholarly Career Diplomat Herschel V. Johnson, former member of the U.S. delegation to the U.N., as Ambassador to Brazil to succeed William D. Pawley (see LATIN AMERICA...
...comments in Rio showed where Pawley had made his mark, and what kind of mark. Said a U.S. businessman: "He's the best we've ever had." Said a Rio professor: "Your ambassador doesn't know a single man of letters, only businessmen...
When Bill Pawley resigned, he had little to show for his two years-except for his important spadework for the Rio and Bogota conferences. But his friends believed that he left behind him ideas which would live and grow. Already Brazil had shown itself more receptive to U.S. investment in oil development. Pawley had tried to interest U.S. iron and steel men in the possibilities of Itabira (TIME, April 5). Some day that work might bear fruit...
...second floor of the palatial U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro last week, the spacious, air-conditioned ambassador's office was being readied for a new tenant. Earnest, dynamic William D. Pawley, who resigned as ambassador last month, had checked out-private airplane and all. To fill the $25,000-a-year job, President Truman had picked 53-year-old Career Diplomat Herschel Vespasian Johnson...
While waiting for Johnson, Brazilians had time to appraise their two-year exposure to Bill Pawley. The millionaire go-getter, who often invited 750 guests for cocktails, had shown Brazil how a jet-propelled American does business. At work and at play he had talked fast-Brazilians sometimes thought too fast-to sell his ideas. He wanted to raise the level of life of 47,000,000 Brazilians which could easily be done from Brazil's own resources. He wanted to open Brazil's potential oilfields to U.S. capital. He wanted to see Brazil's rickety transportation...