Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt quickly invited the four sponsors to a White House conference, where the resolution was discussed with Harry Hopkins and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The President approved it, in theory. But apparently the Administration was loth to touch off a Congressional debate: a little movement developed almost...
Last week Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles set part of the record straight. In the past two years, he said, the U.S. had shipped only 1,942,000 barrels of petroleum products to Spain (normally the 17 Eastern states consume 1,250,000 barrels daily). Further, the U.S. had...
Element of Frankness. Most people wanted to know whether the Ambassador had been instructed to say his piece. Said Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, "Whatever was said in this reported press conference was said without prior consultation with or reference to this Government." In effect: pipe down, Admiral Standley...
Chile's Ambassador Rodolfo Michels and the State Department's Under Secretary Sumner Welles, apostle of hemisphere unity, last week signed a Lend-Lease agreement in Washington. The agreement did not greatly improve Chile's actual prospects of getting needed industrial equipment while there is a shipping...
Already reclassified by his draft board (4-F to 1-A) was veteran Boy Wonder Orson Welles, 27. Asthmatic, arthritic, flatfooted, weak-backed, he asked for an immediate Army physical examination so that he could do a little civilian planning, was pronounced fit for limited service.