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...what 10 Downing Street took pains to say was coincidence, Churchill then announced a slight reshuffling in the upper level of his cabinet, to balance the weights of office and to step up efficiency. While keeping the Foreign Secretaryship, Anthony Eden will also take on some economic duties heretofore handled by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler, who has been overloaded with work. It meant no big change in government operations, but Eden, still the heir apparent to Churchill, would get some needed background in domestic affairs. No sooner had this change been made than a hitch developed. The Foreign...
When the American Friends Service Committee offered him its secretaryship in 1929, Pickett saw it as an ideal opportunity to put into practice the principles he had been teaching. The twelve-year-old organization then had an annual budget of about $50,000 and a staff of twelve, including the janitor. Today the staff of 492 works with a budget of $3,000,000 (the peak...
...Truman and the U.S. businessman. This idea was not new: it goes with the job. Even Harry Hopkins cheered for business as long as he was Secretary of Commerce. Even Henry Wallace had declared, "We must have an expanding private industry" before he was booted out of the Commerce secretaryship for speaking out on foreign affairs...
...went to Yalta with Roosevelt, carrying his earnest optimism with him. He headed the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco birth of U.N., which he like many others thought "would fulfill the hopes of millions of peoples in ... the world." He left the secretaryship, but stayed in Government as U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council...
...Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...