Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taken to the Casualty Hospital in Washington, Welles soon recovered consciousness, said he could not remember what had happened. He was suffering from exposure and frostbitten fingers and toes.
Then from Washington, onetime Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, who had been Duggan's immediate superior in the State Department, sent a telegram to New York's Mayor O'Dwyer which said: "I find it impossible to believe his death was self-inflicted . . . I hope you...
Both Welles and former Secretary of State Cordell Hull sprang to Duggan's defense, praised his patriotism. So did dozens of other U.S. citizens. The Columbia Broadcasting System's Edward R. Murrow (who is also chairman of the board of trustees of the Institute of International Education) spoke...
On the open record, Duggan's career in the State Department was that of a hardworking, conscientious public servant. He had been Under Secretary Welles's lieutenant in plugging for the Good Neighbor policy in Latin America.
Early Sunday morning, three days after he attended Laurence Duggan's funeral (see cut), Sumner Welles was found unconscious and nearly frozen to death in a bleak field near his Maryland estate, about a mile south of Washington's city limits.