Word: wellesely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until their bosses began stepping off trains and planes later in the week, Messrs. Welles, Hanes and their Council of Preparedness met every day: Acting Navy Secretary Charles Edison, Acting War Secretary Louis Johnson, Acting Attorney General Thurman Arnold, Naval Chief of Operations Harold Raynsford Stark, Army Chief of Staff...
Debarking in the morning, his body clad in soiled seersucker, his mind in deep anxiety, this President who needs only a world peace crown to make him perhaps the most memorable ever, did not tell the press what he had done. When he reached Washington, Mr. Roosevelt saw his State...
In the State Department sat dry, rigid Sumner Welles, Under Secretary, unbending, unhurried, whose iron purpose is always swathed in the precise delicacies of diplomatic chitchat, perfectly at home in the chill gloom of the State Department, its black waxed furniture, heavy blue drapes.
With Secretary Morgenthau hunting a homeward boat from Oslo, Secretary of State Hull vacationing in White Sulphur Springs, Postmaster General Farley in Paris, Attorney General Murphy in Narragansett, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins motoring in New England-and with Franklin Roosevelt in fog at sea (see p. 9)-these two...
Two old friends long ago went to work to climb these big hurdles, many lesser ones. For the U. S.-glacial Sumner Welles, the high-domed Acting Secretary, and once Embassy Secretary to Argentina (1917-19); for Argentina-Señor Don Felipe Alberto Espil, the raven-haired Argentine Ambassador...