Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still robed in his prestige, little Justice Frankfurter left the stand-to be followed by egg-bald Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, under whom Hiss had served when Reed was solicitor general. Like Frankfurter-and like Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson and Ambassador-at-large Philip Jessup, both of whom testified by written deposition-Reed agreed that Alger Hiss was a man of "loyalty, integrity and veracity...
Between Hate & Love. Between wars, too, Jack McCloy learned something of the Germans at their best. On an eastbound train in 1929 he ran into his Amherst classmate, Lew Douglas (now Ambassador to Great Britain), and Mrs. Douglas. Arriving in New York, they introduced McCloy to Mrs. Douglas' sister, Ellen Zinsser. McCloy liked Ellen, and liked the Zinsser home at Hastings-on-Hudson. Her father, Frederick, a chemist, was a brother of Harvard's famed Bacteriologist Hans (Rats, Lice and History) Zinsser. Although the elder Zinssers were U.S.-born, the Zinsser family had a German-American flavor...
...Miami Beach, the mother of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17, announced her pretty daughter's engagement to William D. Pawley Jr., 28, wartime Hump flyer and son of the former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil. Lieut. Glenn Davis, 24, fast-stepping "Mr. Outside" of wartime West Point football, who long held the inside track with Elizabeth, was now definitely on the outside. Yes, Elizabeth had worn Glenn's gold football, Mrs. Taylor admitted, but only as "a perfectly normal part of growing up." Elizabeth, looking alluringly grown up last week, flashed a 3½-carat diamond at reporters. "Nice piece...
...will relieve Milton Katz '27, professor of Law, who has held the position on an "acting basis" for some months, but who now is reported about to become deputy to W. Averell Harriman, Marshall Plan "roving ambassador...
From July, 1947 to the spring of 1948 Gordon was "almost full time" consultant with the State Department, working on ERP. In August, 1948, he was special assistant to Ambassador Harriman in Paris ECA headquarters...