Word: stets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...illness and a trip around Europe, Ed Stettinius earned only six of 60 credits needed for a degree; he flunked a course in Government. A latter-day president of the university said that with his "atrocious grades," Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr. would never last in school today. But Stet clearly earned his V in life...
...everybody expected, the President dismissed earnest, young Edward R. Stet-tinius Jr. as Secretary of State, made him the U.S. representative on the World Security Council, a not-yet-existent job which nobody knew much about, but which sounded promising. To replace him, the President, to nobody's surprise, chose South Carolina's James Francis Byrnes...
Dumbarton Oaks was drafted, the U.S. subscribed to its clear declaration that action under any regional arrangement should be subject to the Security Council. At Mexico City, Secretary of State Stet-tinius dodged the question by postponing it to San Francisco. At San Francisco last week, it rose to haunt...
Undampened Stet. The storm left Stettinius undampened, unruffled, appar-ently well pleased with himself. When British Ambassador Lord Halifax paid a hurried call, the new Secretary put on a rare show. Popping like a jack-in-the-box from room to room, he carried on three conferences in three rooms at once. After 29 minutes of conversation snatched between pops, Lord Halifax emerged, his usually somber face wreathed in a wide grin. To newsmen who cornered him in a dim-lit State Department hall, he purred his diplomatic best: "I don't think we need to be unduly excited...
...Stettinius era in U.S. Steel was a revolutionary period, although Stettinius himself played only a minor part in the revolution. One of his main contributions was to substitute stainless-steel streamlining for the gas-jetted, Victorian corridors of the U.S. Steel headquarters at 71 Broadway. But Little Stet surprised oldtimers when he fought off a 1938 proposal that U.S. Steel cut wages to offset a drop in the price of steel. In a fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt digressed to congratulate Big Steel on its "statesmanship." And Harry Hopkins, in his steady progress in U.S. society, had met and liked...