Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep Germany and Japan disarmed forever. As a result, Franklin Roosevelt picked him as a delegate to the San Francisco conference which set up U.N. Since then he has been a delegate to the first and second U.N. General Assemblies and to the Inter-American Defense Conference at Rio de Janeiro. Former Secretary of State Byrnes, a friend of Senate days, took him along to the Foreign Ministers conference in Paris and to the Paris peace conference, and he is largely credited with converting Byrnes to his "patience with firmness" policy. By prodding recalcitrants in his own party...
...Rio de Janeiro, Charles ("Get Rich Quick") Ponzi, 70, multimillion-dollar swindler of 28 years ago (who has been tutoring languages for a living), lay half-paralyzed in a hospital charity ward. Of the U.S. he said: "I hated to leave. I loved that country...
...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...