Word: secretaryships
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...candidates for what is becoming, at least in terms of responsibility, an increasingly important job. But Career Officer Mann was physically worn out after four years of 70-hour weeks in Washington; he declined with thanks. Chester Bowles passed up the job in favor of his State Department Under-Secretaryship. Adlai Stevenson, who toured Latin America early in 1960, was a possibility, but he went to the U.N. Puerto Rico's Governor Munoz Marin was approached; he, too, turned it down because he wanted to complete his program of economic development on the island...
...shine up Roosevelt, Kennedy has discussed naming him to an eye-catching assistant secretaryship or a place on the Civil Rights Commission. "F.D.R. Jr. is a highly debatable white knight to try to send in," mutters one top Kennedy man. "But he is ambitious and willing...