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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Mr. Secretary Stettinius | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changes? | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Victorian Headmaster | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: October Reading | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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