Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hadley, a trim brunette who looks younger than her 38 years, toured Europe as a child with her mother, a professional pianist. Her lawyer husband, Carleton Hadley, left her a widow at 33 with two daughters. She worked for Willkie in 1940 (once she left a note for her Roosevelt-supporting milkman: "No Willkie, no milkie") but she insists that she is really "a Democrat from way back." Her grandfather was a Democratic Congressman from Missouri...
...later became vice president of G.M. in charge of industrial and public relations. U.S. Steel hired him as a front man. By the time he was 37, he was chairman of the board, making $100,000 a year, and was a friend of everyone. At the urging of Franklin Roosevelt's Harry Hopkins, big, expansive Ed went to big, expanding wartime Washington...
...served there on various wartime boards, filled the post of Administrator of Lend-Lease, ably helped to sell Roosevelt's policies to skeptical Congressmen, succeeded Sumner Welles as Under Secretary of State, spread good will, slapped backs and first-named embarrassed British and Russian diplomats. When the aged Cordell Hull had to quit, silver-haired Ed Stettinius, at 44, became the second youngest Secretary of State in the nation's history...
...went to Yalta with Roosevelt, carrying his earnest optimism with him. He headed the U.S. delegation to the San Francisco birth of U.N., which he like many others thought "would fulfill the hopes of millions of peoples in ... the world." He left the secretaryship, but stayed in Government as U.S. representative to the U.N. Security Council...
...planted symmetrically on his grey-fringed head 71-year-old Herbert Lehman, Dulles' opponent, stumped the state. A Wall Streeter himself* for ten years (1933-43), an able governor of New York, Candidate Lehman went down the line for the Fair Deal, with occasional speechwriting assists from old Roosevelt Speechwriter Judge Sam Rosenman...