Word: dunne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong Fusion. To London with Jimmy Byrnes, on the first sailing of the Queen Elizabeth since V-J day, went his wife, Maude; his closest adviser, Benjamin V. Cohen, the middle-aged wonder boy of the New Deal; Assistant Secretary Dunn, and a retinue of department specialists. Another notable member of the party was Manhattan Lawyer John Foster Dulles, the most eminent Republican foreign-affairs expert...
...Rumania's government. Third: discussion of a future provisional government in Germany. After that, Jimmy Byrnes would come home and report promptly to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee-a promise he had made in his second press conference as Secretary of State. He would leave Assistant Secretary Dunn in London to discuss continuing international questions with the deputies of the other nations. The foreign ministers would meet again in a few months...
Third of the top triumvirate is Assistant Secretary Dunn, a man of two reputations. Inside the Department he is known and admired for his thorough knowledge of Department procedure. Many on the outside consider him a man who married wealth (Armour) and adopted arch-conservative views. Jimmy Byrnes has found his departmental knowledge invaluable. (At a Potsdam session one day, Molotov and Eden suddenly began talking about Varkiza, the Greek village where the armistice in the civil war was signed. Lost in a fog, Jimmy Byrnes turned to Jimmy Dunn and blurted: "What the hell is Varkiza?" Jimmy Dunn...
...Besides Dunn, the only other member of Ed Stettinius' team whom Byrnes kept in his old job was Assistant Secretary Will Clayton, an ex-cotton broker, millionaire, friend of Jesse Jones, and shrewd economic horse trader currently negotiating postwar loans with the British (see INTERNATIONAL). For Assistant Secretary in charge of Latin American affairs, he picked barrel-shaped Spruille Braden, who talked tough to the Argentines. For Assistant Secretary in charge of administration he chose 33-year-old Colonel Frank McCarthy, fresh off General Marshall's staff...
...second game Brooklyn's Luis Olmo objected, more or less politely, to a strike called by Umpire Tom Dunn. Olmo: "You missed that one." Dunn: "You shut up." Olmo: "I won't shut up." That finished Olmo (fine: $50). For objecting to Dunn's action, Manager Leo ("The Lip'') Durocher also got the heave-ho. The Pirates, long experienced in treading the paths of banishment, began laying a carpet of towels for the Lip's exit. Durocher gave the towels a few kicks, then reached into a box of baseballs and scattered the pellets...