Word: grot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Sumner Welles, 68, urbane, aristocratic architect of the U.S. Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, a Grot-on-and-Harvard product who headed the State Department's Latin American Affairs Division at 29, as Under Secretary of State became the confidant of Family Friend Franklin Roosevelt and served as personal presidential emissary on fruitless prewar missions to Hitler and Mussolini, only to be forced into resignation-and virtual retirement-in 1943, when Secretary of State Cordell Hull delivered a "him or me" ultimatum to F.D.R.; in Bernardsville, N.J. Condemned by critics as the embodiment of traditional striped-pants...