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Edward Stettinius. The President, reshuffling drastically all along the line, now definitely dumped out Sumner Welles, who had resigned weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 6). In a move that surprised many he replaced him with Edward Reilly Stettinius, 42, ex-vice president of General Motors, ex-chairman of U.S. Steel and now ex-Lend-Lease Administrator. Cordell Hull himself, said Washington wise men, had asked for the steelman who looks like a tall Charlie Chaplin...
About a month ago, Sumner Welles wrote a few South American friends that he had resigned as Under Secretary of State, took a train for swank Bar Harbor. But Welles's resignation has not yet been announced: no successor has been named...
...they come to Mackinac? To exchange jokes and cigars in the lobby? They began to wonder. Maine's Governor Sumner Sewall had been on his way almost a week; California's Earl Warren had sat up all night in a plane. Watching the Governors fiddle and fidget, Readers' Digest's Stanley High cracked: "Never have so many come so far to do so little...
Among well-known citizens who want an international police force after the war are Vice President Henry Wallace, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Ambassador John Winant, Republican hopeful Harold Stassen of Minnesota, Philip Murray of the C.I.O., Matthew Woll of the A.F. of L., and Politico-Pundits Dorothy Thompson, Edgar Ansel Mowrer and Max Eastman. The president of the British Section of the New Commonwealth Society, for more than a decade the most vocal and powerful British group backing an international police force, is none other than Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill...
Research Committee head is Ralph Flanders, who heads Vermont's tool-building Jones & Lamson Co. Chief Research Adviser is Harvard's top-drawer Economist Sumner Slichter, famed for his conventional ideas on Government spending (as contrasted with Harvard's other renowned economist, Spender Alvin Hansen...