Word: stettinius
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...function, Nizer told the jury, was a first-year salute to the United Nations, endorsed by such organizations as the American Bar Association and the Y.M.C.A., and attended by U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, the ambassadors of France and England. On the stand, Hartnett agreed that this was the "function" he was talking about. Nizer asked why he had left out all names but Robinson's. ''Well," said Hartnett, "I wasn't discussing the United Nations...
...first, public sentiment favored Hiss, for the case seemed to turn solely on the word of a confessed Communist agent determined to destroy a man who had been the trusted colleague of such officials as the late Senator Arthur Vandenberg and former Secretaries of State Cordell Hull, Edward Stettinius and James Byrnes. Most of the U.S. was still reluctant to believe that Communism could have penetrated the Federal Government. Then, bit by bit-as if hesitating to reveal the extent of the conspiracy and his own involvement-Chambers produced the evidence that finally sent Alger Hiss to jail for lying...
...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...