Word: sumner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then from Washington, onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who had been Duggan's immediate superior in the State Department, sent a telegram to New York's Mayor O'Dwyer which said: "I find it impossible to believe his death was self-inflicted . . . I hope you will [take] every step . . . to find out whether there may not be some other explanation." Mayor O'Dwyer, further spurred by superheated newspaper stories which darkly suggested foul play, put 33 detectives on the case...
Early Sunday morning, three days after he attended Laurence Duggan's funeral (see cut), Sumner Welles was found unconscious and nearly frozen to death in a bleak field near his Maryland estate, about a mile south of Washington's city limits...
...fidgeted with it, until Douglas stepped forward and took it from him) is one of the many familiar stories that come from this famous diary. James Ford Rhodes, Carl Sandburg, Ida Tarbell and other Lincoln biographers accepted the book as genuine ; only the biographer of Charles Sumner doubted its authenticity...
Harvard's white-haired Sumner Slichter, an economist whom businessmen understand, thought that profits were not really high, although he conceded that they might look that...
Harvard Club of Des Moines, James E. Cooney '41, 1012 Bankers Trust Building; Harvard Club of Eastern Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Sumner H. Foster '32, 2060 Glass rd, ne; Harvard Club of Eastern Michigan, Detroit, Lawrence J. Verdier '33, 3380 Penobscot Building...