Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night Anthony Eden had dinner at the White House with his good friend, John G. Winant, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, and Franklin Roosevelt. Over coffee and cigars they talked well into the night...
...Held an unscheduled conference with John G. Winant, Ambassador to Great Britain, who returned to the U.S. to report...
After Partner Corcoran left Government service for a fat private Washington law practice, Partner Cohen faded from the Washington spotlight. He volunteered as adviser to U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant in London to help speed Lend-Lease. After a brief spell in England he returned to Washington. Although he dropped off the Government payroll, he stayed in the background, occasionally helping to draft a bill, to give advice. He turned down several jobs offered by Franklin Roosevelt. Still an ardent New Dealer, it was winning the war that seemed important now. He was waiting for the spot in which...
...London Mary Welsh is likely to turn up for tea at Ambassador John Winant's austere flat -or arguing the Atlantic Charter with H. G. Wells-or eating fish pie in the Archbishop of Canterbury's sombre palace. You might find her talking with Labor Minister Ernest Bevin at the Trade Union Club-playing tennis with Ronald Tree of the Information Ministry-dining at the Savoy with Hore-Belisha. . . . She is probably the only woman who ever appeared at a formal Cliveden dinner in a tricked-up red bathrobe. (She had left all her clothes in Paris when...
Another came to us via a Carnegie Traveling Fellowship and a job under John Winant at the International Labor office in Geneva; one prepared at college for a diplomatic career; another ran a hospital clinic in New York for four years; two were on the staff of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and two were analysts for Standard Statistics before they came to TIME . . . One (a graduate economist) researched for the OPA in Washington-and one was a reporter in Europe from the Austrian Anschluss to the Polish invasion. Another came to us from the Sunday Express of Johannesburg...