Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appearance there in 26 months. The gallery was packed. Ranking diplomats were there and Administration bigwigs; in front-row gallery seats sat Eleanor Roosevelt and Daughter Anna, notepaper in hand. The floor, too, was filled: Representatives (some holding youngsters in their laps), Senators and all the Cabinet except Secretaries Stettinius and Forrestal, who were out of the country...
Said Secretary Stettinius, explaining the procedure to the Latin American Conference (and asking the Latin republics to submit their criticisms in writing rather than air them at Mexico City...
Before Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and his U.S. associates got their wits back, the Latin Americans ganged up and almost put over a proposal for permanent mutual guarantees of their boundaries and independence. At this critical juncture, the U.S. delegation seemed to have an impossible choice: accept something which it could not legally approve without the Senate's consent, or grievously offend the Latin republics...
Into the breach stepped Vermont's Republican Senator Warren R. Austin. While Stettinius & Co. were gasping for air, smart Warren Austin announced that he could not read the Spanish text of the resolution, made delay a point of Latin courtesy. This stratagem gave him and Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, time to work out a compromise...
Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. Stettinius' No. 1 assistant on Latin American affairs, showed his growing know-how, his flair for Latin amenities. At one session Delegate Rockefeller even chatted happily with Mexican Artist Diego Rivera, whose proletarian murals were torn out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center by Nelson's father twelve years ago. Artist Rivera, now planning a mural based on the conference, spent several hours sketching Ed Stettinius...