Word: fostering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freshman on the Floor. In response to Taft's alarms, the Senate was treated to as remarkable a show by a freshman as it had seen in many a year. New York's John Foster Dulles, standing in the well of the chamber and pacing back & forth like a lawyer before a jury, delivered a point-by-point reply, then handled a two-hour grilling from his fellow Republicans with adroitness and composure...
...Sterling Foster, ex-chief of the RFC's loans operations division, to the presidency of South Carolina's Plywood Plastic Co., which has $3,000,000 in RFC loans...
...Thomas E. Dewey been elected President, John Foster Dulles would probably have been his Secretary of State. Last week Governor Dewey did the next best thing for his longtime friend and adviser: he appointed Dulles to succeed retiring U.S. Senator Robert F. Wagner...
...point he erred. He denied that, after Chambers' first charges against him, John Foster Dulles had asked him to resign as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dulles came later to the stand to correct Hiss's recollection. With his memory bolstered by a written record of the conversation, Dulles, chairman of the trustees of the endowment, swore that he had told Hiss he thought he should resign...
...midsummer politicking. The Senator's unexciting son, Robert F. Wagner Jr., hinted that he would like the job. Tom Dewey said he didn't want it himself, but wouldn't yet say whom he had in mind (one possible choice: Republican Foreign Policy Adviser John Foster Dulles). On the Democratic side, there was immediate talk of the party's wonder boy, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who was elected to the House only six weeks ago. But Junior said he'd rather see it go to ex-Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who is 71. Lehman said...