Word: sumner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...couple of hours before Ambassador Bullitt landed, President Roosevelt an nounced that Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles would "proceed shortly to Europe to visit Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain." The reason: "This visit is solely for the purpose of advising the President and the Secretary of State as to present conditions in Europe. Mr. Welles will, of course, be authorized to make no proposals or commitments...
Discretion. These were the moves that launched a thousand rumors. Radiorators and columnists did not hesitate to announce as fact (each had it on unimpeachable authority) a dozen conflicting guesses. Most of them focused on the lean and elegant figure of Sumner Welles. A career diplomat, 47, educated at Groton, Harvard, and the embassies at Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Havana, Sumner Welles is a casting director's dream of a diplomat, except for his thinning hair. His diplomatic experience has ranged from mediating in the Dominican Republic at 30 to seeing him self hanged in effigy in Cuba...
...President Roosevelt's appointment of a "peace emissary" (see p. 15). Even if Sumner Welles were a peace emissary, peace would kill hopes of a real export boom...
Foils: Dick Adler, Al Skelly, John Sawhill; and Martin Johnson, John Vaughan. Sabre: Ellis Robinson, John Wood, Miles Maxfield. Epee: Dick Wiechmann, Sumner Katze, Art Von Mehren; and George White...
Last week, two days before the treaty's abrogation became effective, the Japanese were still hopefully wangling for a renewal, which the U. S. State Department had no faint intention of making. The zero hour rather than the words of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles finally convinced Japan's Ambassador to Washington Kensuke Horinouchi of the facts...