Word: secretaryship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Louis Johnson raised the money for the campaign, when the Democratic Party treasury was at its lowest. It was a great political service and Fund Raiser Johnson knew what he wanted. Harry Truman made a few halfhearted attempts to fob him off with offers of the sub-Cabinet Army secretaryship or the Court of St. James's. But Louis Johnson stood fast. The weekend after his inauguration, President Harry Truman let Louis Johnson know that the prize was his at last...
With the clock showing 1:45, the Council nominated McCormick and D. Broward Craig '51, for the secretaryship; McCormick won the evening's first close vote...
That wasn't the way Calder understood it. As soon as the news hit the wires, Calder cracked back: "I have not accepted the secretaryship of the Army today or accepted it for 60 days from now." In the ensuing confusion, Louis Johnson kept mum while Harry Truman loyally tried to straighten things out by hoping that Calder could still be persuaded. If not, the loud publicity would make it even harder to find another candidate. One trouble was that though the vacant Army and Navy secretaryships were still Cabinet posts in all but name, they were increasingly becoming...
Last week, though the leather folder on the President's desk fattened with candidates for Government jobs, there was a painful shortage of iron men with elephant hides. There was no stampede of qualified men for Royall's $15,000 job, or the $10,000 under secretaryship abandoned by William H. Draper. Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan ($15,000) and his Under Secretary W. John Kenney ($10,000) were thinking of leaving, too. There were two $15,000 openings on the Atomic Energy Commission (former Iowa editor W. W. Waymack had left, Physicist Robert Bacher had submitted...