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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...title used loosely for such roving diplomats as the late Norman Davis and ECA's W. Averell Harriman, but never before submitted for senatorial confirmation...
Flowing Hope. Its success, witness after witness asserted, could not, and should not be measured in economic terms alone. The impact of EGA, said Secretary Acheson, had altered "the political atmosphere of an entire continent." Added W. Averell Harriman, ECA's European ambassador: "Hope, and the will to resist tyranny, were ebbing in Europe in 1947. They are flowing again today. It is this-the will to live as free men and to go forward toward a future which, while it cannot be precisely foreseen, can yet be believed in-which has arrested the spread of reactionary Communist aggression...
...Rudolph Max Kauffmann, vice president; Newbold Noyes Jr., secretary; Crosby Noyes Boyd, treasurer; Rudolph Kauffmann II, assistant secretary-treasurer; Godfrey W. Kauffmann and Crosby Stuart Noyes, directors...
...press of the world had been interested in Amsterdam, reported The Netherlands' Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, general secretary to the World Council, but not all of the press comment had been favorable. Some papers, said Dr. Visser 't Hooft, had criticized Amsterdam severely for being "a bunch of left-wing socialists talking like regular revolutionaries." Others had sneered at "those bourgeois who will never learn that the world is moving on." The Soviet press had attacked the council as "a new powerful center of a political church." Commented Visser 't Hooft: "They...
Attenshun! In Chicago, Dr. Charles W. Goff, member of the Posture Committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, had a cheering word for stoop-shouldered men: a slight slouch and protruding rump, he said, is healthy, conserves energy, and keeps the sloucher alert...