Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates gathered, as Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (sent in lieu of his chief, Cordell Hull, so that the smaller countries would not feel dominated) began issuing statements, as President Juan Demosthenes Arosemena of Panama polished up a speech of welcome, the U. S. got busy backstage. Casually, as if its perfect timing were just a happy coincidence, the New York World's Fair put on a Pan American Day, at which, by chance, Cordell Hull was scheduled to speak. In the Fair's Court of Peace, Secretary of State Hull gave a quiet, drawling speech...
...third year in a row the course "Problems in Industrial Relations" given by Sumner N. Slichter, professor of Business Economics, has been designated as the Leatherbee Lecture Course and will be open to businessmen without charge...
...friends long ago went to work to climb these big hurdles, many lesser ones. For the U. S.-glacial Sumner Welles, the high-domed Acting Secretary, and once Embassy Secretary to Argentina (1917-19); for Argentina-Señor Don Felipe Alberto Espil, the raven-haired Argentine Ambassador to the U. S., who wears his white-tie-&-tails with the nonchalance of Fred Astaire, who was once the Duchess of Windsor's constant dancing partner, whose barber lets no sign of his 52 years show around the ears...
Argentina suddenly changed its trade system to one of import control, freezing foreign exports to Argentina at 1934-36 levels, then setting import quotas. With this Argentina shift toward multilateral trade, Sumner Welles in Washington and Minister Lamas in Buenos Aires could announce with good grace a proposed trade agreement...
...concessions to the Argentine will come on canned, cured and dogfood meats, linseed, flaxseed, grapes, pears, coarse wools. Hearings for domestic producers will begin October 16, announced Sumner Welles happily...