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...Broom Into the top councils of the aged New Deal came young Ed Stettinius as the 49th U.S. Secretary of State, full of vigor and high resolution. The news of the new week was the speed, distinction and determination of his attack on the organization of the dusty old State Department...
Into their vacancies went a whole new team, hand-picked by Ed Stettinius and approved by the President: > Ex-Cotton Broker Will Clayton, 64, retiring Surplus Property Administrator, to handle foreign economic affairs. Shrewd, wealthy Will Clayton, a longtime friend of Jesse Jones, will also take over the Department's civilian aviation policy, reporting directly to the President...
Thus, by this week, everybody under the State Department's grey, gabled eaves knew that there was indeed a new man at the helm. But Ed Stettinius had only begun. Further changes "strengthening the Department" were promised...
...Secretary Stettinius ( See Cover ) The Senate's Lone Ranger, North Dakota's Bill Langer, took the floor one day last week. He had an objection to make, to the appointment of Edward R. Stettinius Jr. as Secretary of State. The objection took up two and a half hours of his and the Senate's time, and filled 57 columns of type in the Congressional Record. But Bill Langer spoke with the air of a man who knew the truth of Ben Franklin's dictum that he who spits against the wind spits in his own face...
...Thanks, Bob." Day after the Senate confirmation, into Cordell Hull's old black leather office crowded tittering Government clerks, a jostling mass of hardelbowed photographers, the Stettinius family-wife Virginia Wallace Stettinius, sons Edward R. III, 16, Wallace and Joseph, twins, 11-the protocol officer in striped pants, Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson in black, General George Marshall in olive drab, and Ed Stettinius in a blue business suit. The Secretary of State's desk, stacked high for twelve years with pamphlets, cables and memos, was clean...