Word: stettinius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Onassis were blown out into the open when Congress started a stem-to-stern investigation of the immense profits that were made on war surplus ship sales. A congressional committee found that Massachusetts' former Representative Joseph E. Casey had joined the late, onetime Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and others in 1947 in what seemed like a surefire venture. Tankers were then in such demand that it was possible to make a down payment on a war surplus T2, get a charter from an oil company and then sell either the charter or the ship...
...policy in Latin America, conceived the idea of exporting American technical know-how to underdeveloped countries, the germ of what later became Harry Truman's Point Four Program. He resigned as Assistant Secretary of State in 1945 when President Truman appointed James F. Byrnes to succeed Edward Stettinius, but in 1950 Truman called him back to launch Point Four. As chairman of the International Development Advisory Board, he wrote the charter that still serves for U.S. policy in technical assistance...
Died. Frederick William Nichol, 63, Canadian-born vice president and general manager (1935-49) of International Business Machines Corp., special administrative adviser (1944) to Secretaries of State Cordell Hull and Edward Stettinius; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...exhausted. In a moment of awful weariness he confided that he had come to feel that he was picking up endless lighted fuses and tamping them out. He resigned in November 1944 after nearly twelve years in office, longer than any other Secretary of State. (His successor: Edward Stettinius...
...included in the compilation are the personal notes of Presidential Adviser James Byrnes, Secretary of State Stettinius and Ambassador Harriman. Some of Harriman's official reports are, however, in the Yalta record and are notable for their clarity and forethought...