Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thanks, Bob." Day after the Senate confirmation, into Cordell Hull's old black leather office crowded tittering Government clerks, a jostling mass of hardelbowed photographers, the Stettinius family-wife Virginia Wallace Stettinius, sons Edward R. III, 16, Wallace and Joseph, twins, 11-the protocol officer in striped pants, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson in black, General George Marshall in olive drab, and Ed Stettinius in a blue business suit. The Secretary of State's desk, stacked high for twelve years with pamphlets, cables and memos, was clean...
Handsome Ed Stettinius thus became the next-to-youngest Secretary of State in U.S. history.* A onetime big-business executive, specializing as a front man (General Motors, North American Aviation, U.S. Steel), he learned the basics of government protocol in NIRA, OPM, Lend-Lease. He has been learning diplomacy as Under Secretary of State since September 1943. Few doubted that under his regime the real Secretary of State would continue to be Franklin Roosevelt...
...root of the trouble, said these informed sources, went far deeper than air matters or protocol; it also concerned the United Nations security conference to ratify Dumbarton Oaks...
...Protocol in No Man's Land. The most minuscule points of military protocol were scrupulously observed. Major Jack Monteith, a wiry, six-foot Scot, supervised the later detailed negotiations in no man's land when unforeseen points arose...
...State Department fledgling, he was entrusted with such tricky diplomatic odd jobs as: 1) escorting the late King Albert of Belgium and the Prince of Wales about the U.S., 2) acting as Woodrow Wilson's protocol adviser at Versailles. In more recent years, he is credited with the tricky job of persuading Brazil to give the U.S. World War II air bases. Natty Diplomat Caffery keeps his figure trim by swimming, climbing mountains, and forgoing lunch. Shy, nervous and addicted to bad puns, he is highly regarded by the Department as a painstaking foreign serviceman who plugs away...