Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edward R. Stettinius Jr. might well have imagined himself back in the Secretary of State's office. As newsmen trooped into a press conference with him in a grey-carpeted suite in Manhattan's Savoy-Plaza, he was flanked by a three-man Government mission from Liberia. But this time he had a business deal to announce: a $1,000,000 partnership between U.S. financiers and the Negro republic...
...deal to develop Liberia by stimulating trade was a mixture of free-trading idealism and hardheaded business. With an eye on all the backward countries of the world, Stettinius said: "With our technique and know-how, it just isn't necessary for them to live poorly. I would not, personally, be doing this on a purely commercial basis...
Slichter and a group of business, welfare, and other leaders will work under the leadership of Edward R. Stettinius, former Secretary of State, to devise ways of extending social security beyond the 42 million persons now covered, and to make recommendations for other changes...
Many stockholders immediately let out a bellow against Bell. Loudest came from Wall Streeter Jackson Martindell, whose company, Fiduciary Management, Inc., owns or controls 14,300 Bell shares. So Bell dropped the stock option plan. With Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Martindell set up a committee to oust seven of Bell's board, charging Bell was not entitled to the benefits...
...University had turned out Woodrow Wilson, Edgar Allan Poe, and such living lights as Railroader Robert Young, Senator Alben W. Barkley, Bishop Henry St. George Tucker, Erskine Caldwell, Ed Stettinius (now the University's rector). But in 1940-41, only 122 of the state's 6,856 white high-school graduates went to the University. Complained the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Editor Virginius Dabney, '20, last week: too many University students were "young wastrels [with] large bankrolls and few serious intentions of studying." What's more, he added darkly, most of the wastrels were...