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...more consistent U.S. foreign policy can be expected with Jimmy Byrnes as Secretary of State. In all probability it will eventually be carried out by a better-oiled and organized machine than that which operated under Cordell Hull and Ed Stettinius. This policy will be businesslike, straightforward and more easily understood...
Retiring Secretary of State Ed Stettinius seemed satisfied with his new job (see Foreign Relations). Labor Secretary Frances Perkins put aside her black tricorn, unveiled two "private hats": 1) a broad, black-on-white sailor straw; 2) a trim white Panama with black veil. She seemed to enjoy the leavetaking. At a farewell party at the Statler Hotel she gave Senator Robert F. Wagner an astonishing kiss on the cheek; at another party she shook the hands of 1,800 Labor Department employes (see cut). Her plans: a month in Maine with her ailing husband Paul Wilson; beyond that...
...first and most significant crisis of the San Francisco conference appeared the second day. It arose in the steering committee, when Anthony Eden moved that Ed Stettinius be made permanent chairman of the conference. Molotov objected: he said that a presidium of the four sponsoring powers should rotate among themselves the chairmanships of the plenary sessions and of the most important committees...
...believe that the President should have such power. The two Congressional leaders, he said, were more logical successors because they came closest to being elected by all the voters of the nation. He did not have to remind Congress that the present Secretary of State is young Ed Stettinius, a personable and energetic man, but neither an experienced nor an elected official...
Theresa Helburn, directress of the Theatre Guild, copped an honorary Master's degree from Tufts. Other kudos-collectors: Secretary of State Stettinius, Doctor of Laws (Columbia); Georgia's Senator Walter F. George, Doctor of Laws (Columbia...