Word: sr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent the stockholders a new offer. Confident that they would accept, he prepared to fly west again. With him he had a pair of right-hand men: George Nelson, advertising director of the late Philadelphia Record, and George Chaplin, managing editor of the Camden Courier and Post until Stern Sr. sold them last winter. In his pocket, Tommy Stern had a ringing, first-day editorial. Then, a few hours before plane time, he got the bad news in a terse wire: the Star had already been sold...
...abruptly appointed head of the American section of the Russian Foreign Office, thence was sent into the thick of high & low diplomacy, as counselor at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. These were dangerous times, and Molotov. decided finally to keep the old-line, ex-Menshevik diplomats (Maisky, Troyanovsky Sr., Surits et al.) from further advancement, push a younger and more reliable set to the fore. Thus, in 1943, succeeding Western-minded Maxim Litvinoff, Gromyko walked into the Oval Room of the White House and presented his ambassadorial credentials to Franklin Roosevelt. Gromyko was then 34, and looked as though...
...take them to Ann Arbor to see the University of Michigan campus. Tom Dewey, '23, hoped that some day 15-year-old Tom Jr. would also go to Michigan. When newsmen asked Tom Jr. what he thought of the university, he snapped: "No comment." Tom Sr. spoke to his son in private. Later Tom Jr. announced that he thought the university was "wonderful." Dewey made no bones about wishing he had left the boys at home. "They got too much attention," he said sadly, "and much of the good work Mrs. Dewey and I put in on them...
...Faithful Inn, the Deweys rested. Tom Sr. felt that everything was going fine. Ten of the 17 Republican governors polled at the Salt Lake conference had picked him as the likeliest Republican presidential nominee. "I hadn't thought it would be that overwhelming," said the Governor modestly...
Died. Herbert L. Satterlee, 83, patriarchally handsome son-in-law and biographer of the late J. P. Morgan Sr.,* Assistant Secretary of the Navy under Theodore Roosevelt, onetime president of the Union League Club and longtime Manhattan corporation lawyer and social figure; by his own hand (pistol); in Manhattan...