Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman, the delegates selected a Canadian, shrewd, friendly Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, the Dominion's Minister Plenipotentiary...
...first-class international rumpus was in the making last week. The drama had an all-star cast: Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, Columnist Drew Pearson, Ambassador William Phillips, and a whole galaxy of silk-hat names cast in minor roles. And the drama had excellent suspense-no one could guess what would happen next...
...Lion Roars. Six weeks ago Columnist Pearson, who likes to rattle closeted skeletons, somehow got into this particular closet. He rattled loudly in his column, printing excerpts from the Phillips letter. Soon hints came from London that Ambassador Phillips would resign for "personal reasons." Delightedly, Columnist Pearson printed a report that the Phillips letter had caused roars of anger up & down Downing Street. Said Pearson: the British had declared Ambassador Phillips persona non grata...
...Washington British Ambassador Lord Halifax issued a cold denial. Nevertheless, Ambassador Phillips resigned, effective Sept. 1, and was replaced last week by two old State Department hands, Robert Murphy and Samuel Reber. The State Department denied that the moves had any relation to the Pearson charges...
...Drew Pearson's charges were echoed and supported in the Senate last week by Kentucky's "Happy" Chandler, whose foreign-policy thinking runs in remarkably parallel lines to the Chicago Tribune...