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This week Secretary of State Cordell Hull, back from a rest in Hot Springs, Va., introduced his new Under Secretary to a press conference with a verbal bouquet. Smiling and with hands on the back of a chair in the familiar Hull manner, Ed Stettinius said: "This is the climax of my young career." The man who left a $100,000 headship of U.S. Steel to enter Government service, who was generally praised for his work as Lend-Lease Administrator (TIME, Oct. 4), now faced the toughest administrative job of his career. Largely in his hands was the direction...
...along the line, now definitely dumped out Sumner Welles, who had resigned weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 6). In a move that surprised many he replaced him with Edward Reilly Stettinius, 42, ex-vice president of General Motors, ex-chairman of U.S. Steel and now ex-Lend-Lease Administrator. Cordell Hull himself, said Washington wise men, had asked for the steelman who looks like a tall Charlie Chaplin...
...President in 1944 will be able to point to them, as well as to Businessmen Frank Knox, Jesse Jones, Leo Crowley, James V. Forrestal, Bernard Baruch, Donald Nelson, Chester Bowles, Robert A. Lovett, as representatives in the administration of the business viewpoint. (To Conservatives he can point out Cordell Hull, Henry L. Stimson, the Southern Democrats-and he can always manage to get rid of New Dealers *Harry Hopkins...
Aging Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who, as the winner of the celebrated Jones-Wallace fight (TIME, July 26), had arrogated most of these powers to himself, has now lost them again. But he seemed satisfied: friends reported that he wanted to keep State a strictly diplomatic agency...
...clear away the underbrush, the three Foreign Secretaries or their understudies will meet in Moscow the second week in October and no questions barred. This week it was definite that Viacheslav Molotov and Anthony Eden would be on hand, probable that 72-year-old Cordell Hull would decide to make the long flight. The talks would be not a week too soon...