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Washington's present social lions are officers, Latin American diplomats, wartime bigwigs like Donald Nelson, Leon Henderson and Sumner Welles, who are showered with invitations but accept very few. Because busy men have to be caught on the run, socialites now hold late-afternoon cocktail parties and buffet suppers, where busy guests can pop in for a quick one, instead of formal parties. One of the most popular functions is an open-house buffet luncheon served every day by Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, widow of the late New York Congressman, in her mansion near the War and State Departments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Washington Society Page | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...January 1941, Sumner Welles informed Soviet Ambassador Oumansky "that Hitler has marked Russia for slaughter in the following June." The Under Secretary's declaration was based not on ordinary military intelligence but on an "amazingly interesting foundation which cannot, at this time, be disclosed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Not-So-White Paper | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Current Events Talk: Professor Sumner H. Slichter, New Lecture Hall, 4 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer School Calendar | 7/1/1942 | See Source »

...contemplated all this with a bilious eye was George Messersmith, now U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Messersmith had spent a long time in Germany and had known about Axel Wenner-Gren in the prewar years. Another non-admirer, in Washington, was Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, whom Wenner-Gren had once mysteriously dogged all the way to Italy and Germany. As time went on, the suspicions of the State Department deepened. Suddenly, in January, the Department swung its club and Axel Wenner-Gren found himself on the blacklist of persons with whom the U.S. would have no further dealings. Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Man of Peace | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Champion to date of the 1942 season of honorary degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Frank Knox, Henry L Stimson, J. Edgar Hoover, Nicnolas Murray Butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

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