Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no laughter when Ala told how Russian Ambassador Ivan Sadchikov, acting as a "friendly mediator," had urged Premier Ahmed Gavam to grant the Azerbaijan autonomists' demands. Said Ala quietly: "That, to my mind, is an interference." Said Stettinius: "I believe more than ever that it would be a mistake to drop the case. . . ." The Council agreed. But Russian-sponsored rebels continued to hold Azerbaijan...
...Truman, the story related, will take over operation of the store in 1948 ("It will be nice to get back to the old grind"). Henry Wallace will run the union suit department, Clinton Anderson the company cafeteria, Ed Pauley will take charge of the furnace, "an oil burner." Edward Stettinius will be a model in the men's ready-to-wear suit department, will be used in the store window on dull days. "It would be an ideal job for Ed," the President claimed. "He wouldn't have to open his mouth." Storytelling George Allen...
...Read a Gallup Poll showing that 61% of the nation's voting Democrats favor Truman for President in 1948 (runners-up: Henry Wallace, General Dwight Eisenhower, James Byrnes and Edward Stettinius...
Before Hodgson intervened, Russia had the U.S. and Britain over a barrel. No one seriously believed that Franco was about to go on the warpath, and Gromyko had no constructive proposal on how to get rid of him. But if Stettinius and Cadogan voted tacit aid & comfort to Franco by defeating Gromyko, Russia could use that fact to advance her own ends, from Trieste to Tokyo. If the West continued to do nothing about Franco, it would in crease the chance that his successor will be more Communist than democratic...
...America's Edward Stettinius: the voice of a "jovial salesman...