Word: stettinius
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...began to worry again. Their new fear: that Stevenson might not be their candidate. The governor, whose deepest interest has long been foreign affairs (he served with the U.S. delegation to the United Nations General Assembly and as a special assistant to the Secretary of State under Byrnes and Stettinius), seemed undecided whether he would seek a second term. The party leaders, expecting a strong Republican vote for President, were sure they would need him to win the statehouse. He has been one of the best governors in Illinois history, has slashed the Green-padded payroll, brought in able aides...
...summer of 1947, Casey organized a company called the American Overseas Tanker Corp. He put $20,000 of his own money into the company and raised another $80,000 from a group of stockholders, including such gilt-edged names as the late former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey and Julius C. Holmes, now U.S. Minister in London. Casey then made arrangements with the Maritime Commission to buy five surplus tankers (original cost: $3,000,000 each) for about $8,500,000. Next, he made an agreement to charter the tankers to a Standard...
...Churchill's memoirs of World War II. 2. Secretary Stimson's memoirs. 3. General Marshall's memoirs. 4. Secretary Stettinius' account of the Casablanca Conference. 5. General de Gaulle's story of the French resistance...
...steadily. Soon he became a familiar figure at high councils of state, sitting just behind the men at the green-topped tables of power. As secretary general of the San Francisco Conference, he was shown in the news pictures between Russia's Molotov and the U.S.'s Stettinius; at Yalta, he sat at Franklin Roosevelt's shoulder. He inspired confidence; even in his days of exposure and trial, men of imposing station spoke for him unquestioningly - Secretary of State Acheson, Ambassador Philip Jessup, Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter...
...Stettinius denies that F.D.R.'s health weakened his bargaining voice: the President believed that the U.S. could wean the Soviet Union "away from dictatorship and tyranny in the direction of a free, tolerant, and peaceful society." At best it was a naive hope for a man come to trade with a proved champion of Lenin's precept: "Use any ruse, cunning, unlawful method, evasion, concealment of truth...