Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More important than these amiable efforts, Stettinius in 14 months had again proven himself a loyal underling. He was certainly not so capable nor informed as previous Under Secretaries-Sumner Welles, for example. But he had been a faithful executor of the Secretary's will, as they...
...certainly would not, health permitting. But he had been at the Navy's Bethesda Hospital for three weeks with a bad throat; he had needed extended vacations in the last few years. For his place, if he were forced to quit, the dopesters had many candidates: Henry Wallace, Sumner Welles, Ambassador Winant, Under Secretary Stettinius. But as long as Cordell Hull wanted the job, Franklin Roosevelt would let him keep...
...audiences to ask themselves the same question. It should also, by the revelation of a startling statistic which shows Germany's manpower potentially far exceeding any of its neighbors' by 1970, make them realize the importance of a prompt and effective answer. With a graphic explanation of Sumner Welles's partition plan, and a passing nod to the views of Walter Winchell, Lord Vansittart and John Foster Dulles, M.O.T.'s own implicit answer is: "Be stern...
...Some famed "Grotties": Diplomats Sumner Welles, '10, and Joseph C. Grew, '98; New York Daily News Publisher Captain Joseph M. Patterson, '96; Artist George Biddle, '04; Attorney General Francis Biddle...
Problems, not personalities, were on the reading public's mind. On most nonfiction best-seller lists were Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision, Charles & Mary Beard's A Basic History of the United States, Edgar Snow's People on Our Side, Walter Lippmann's U.S. War Aims, Joseph C. Grew's Ten Years in Japan...