Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without benefit of aides and brain-trusters, with no prepared statements in his pockets, handsome, prematurely grey Edward R. Stettinius Jr. appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The Senators questioned him, unanimously voted Committee approval...
...Senate usually waits a day after committee action on nominations. But just a few hours later Stettinius was confirmed as Under Secretary of State, without a dissenting vote. Up rose Democratic Leader Alben W. Barkley in fulsome eulogy. Immediately Arthur Vandenberg, powerful Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, was on his feet to say that the Republicans agreed...
...heavy stroke of the pen the President made one of the most thoroughgoing Government reorganizations in New Deal history. He abolished the Lend-Lease Administration (Edward R. Stettinius), the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations (Herbert Lehman), the Office of Economic Warfare (Leo Crowley), and the Office of Foreign Economic Coordination (Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
...Right. The President, moving steadily to the right as the U.S. moved to the right, was shoring up his administration with businessmen and conservatives, such as he had available. Although the views of Messrs. Harriman & Stettinius are more New Dealish than those of most U.S. industrialists, the President in 1944 will be able to point to them, as well as to Businessmen Frank Knox, Jesse Jones, Leo Crowley, James V. Forrestal, Bernard Baruch, Donald Nelson, Chester Bowles, Robert A. Lovett, as representatives in the administration of the business viewpoint. (To Conservatives he can point out Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson...
...these moves the President moved with both the present and the future in mind-diplomatically toward an economic viewpoint in foreign affairs (Crowley, Stettinius, Harriman); militarily toward action (General Marshall); domestically toward conservatism, sensible production-scheduling, less red tape...