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...Dear Sumner." Not unaware of the headlines it was about to make, the committee called upon Sumner Welles, former Under Secretary of State, to identify two "Dear Sumner" notes which Mrs. Roosevelt had written to him concerning Eisler in 1939. Eisler, as a refugee music professor from Hitler Germany, was then attempting to get into the U.S. through Cuba, but was being denied a visa as a suspected Communist. With her first note, on White House stationery, Mrs. Roosevelt sent Welles a batch of papers given to her by a friend of Eisler's, a "perfectly honest person...
Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong had packed the anniversary issue of his grave, grey Foreign Affairs with a roster of big names: Henry L. Stimson, Sumner Welles, Anthony Eden, the Earl of Halifax, Historian Arnold Toynbee, World Bank President John J. McCloy...
...Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, will act as associate chairman of the new 17-man advisory council to study proposals for expanding social security benefits, Eugene D. Millikin (R. Colo.), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, announced yesterday...
...Everyone present knew some of the things that atomic science offers to humanity: new medical advances, a deeper understanding of biology, perhaps unlimited energy to do the world's heavy work. But it may be a very long time before science can get busy on such matters. Commissioner Sumner T. Pike of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission did not sound very encouraging about it. Peaceful applications of nuclear science, he said, have "an A-2 priority." They will continue to have a secondary rating until there is international agreement on control of atomic activities. For the present, "our principal...
...cool, deliberate, diplomatic, the head of nuclear research at Cornell University and one of the scientists who assembled, the first atomic bomb. The banker was Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 51, a mellow, courtly, impeccably dressed philanthropist, partner in New York's Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The industrialist was tall, rangy Sumner Pike, 55, a bachelor and adventurous industrialist with a shrewd, twangy Yankee humor...