Word: winants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy ace, publicly an unknown, is an able, coolheaded New York investment banker (a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.), sympathetic to the New Deal, came to Washington through his partner, W. Averell Harriman, the 49-year-old financier soon to go on London duty with Ambassador John Winant. Corcoran & Lovett, according to the plan, are to work as a team of New Deal Beaverbrooks on the major defense problem: airplanes...
...consist of four Cabinet members: State, War, Navy, Treasury. This setup would keep the defense and aid-to-Britain programs directly under the President, would permit straight-line production by the single-order system: Britain to the Treasury to Army and/or Navy to Britain, under State Department counsel, with Winant, Cohen & Harriman as London receivers and order placers...
...gawky, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant last week lay over water: by Clipper to Lisbon over the Atlantic, from Lisbon by British ferry-plane, passing a Lufthansa Fokker enroute to Switzerland, to Bristol over the Bay of Biscay. As the plane circled to land at the Bristol airfield, a guard of honor ringed the field. For John Winant was going to London to visit the King as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
With quiet reserve, the Ambassador posed for news cameras, reviewed his guard of honor. To interviewers shy Mr. Winant said he hadn't much to say, bit his lip, pawed the ground and jerked out: "I'm glad to be here. There's no place I'd rather be than in England." His harassed sincerity contrasted with the smooth smiles of his predecessor Joe Kennedy, who would rather be almost anywhere than in England...
Although he left for Europe considerably before Winant, President Conant arrived at Lisbon at the same time; Conant traveled to Portugal by beat, whereas Winant flew by clipper. Both men, together with Benjamin Cohon, New Deal brain-truster, flew to Bristol, England, on Friday...