Word: stettiniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stettinius Jr. and 14 other big names of politics, science and industry, serving as kind of visiting scoutmasters, will supply the "plus." A regular faculty will prepare the boys for college; Stettinius & Co. will "prepare them for life." Each of the 15 big-name visitors has promised to spend two weeks of the school year on Romford's 680 acres-teaching, hiking, fishing and just chatting with the boys. Says the catalogue: that way a Romford graduate should develop "an interest beyond the next dance...
...with so much talent for public relations, handsome Ed Stettinius has had a queer whirl from history...
...when he became Secretary of State (1944) he found he was just Franklin Roosevelt's standin. Eight months later, when Harry Truman replaced him with Jimmy Byrnes, Truman offered Stettinius what he termed "the most important job at my command"-i.e., permanent representation on the U.N. Security Council. But here again, Ed turned out to be the stand-in for his successor...
...Stettinius Successor...
...banquet press conference, the Undersecretary refused to comment on the possibilities of his succeeding Stettinius as American delegate to the United Nations. He expressed little concern with the current troubles with the Soviet Union but viewed our relations with that country as a task of long term but not insoluble difficulty. Disparaging the proposal to sever relations or use economic sanctions against Franco as one which would not accomplish what we wished to achieve, he termed Spain "a very difficult problem...