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Finletter

American  
[fin-let-er] / ˈfɪnˌlɛt ər /

noun

  1. Thomas Knight, 1893–1980, U.S. lawyer and diplomat.


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Next to him at the green committee table sat Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter, who is committed to the Administration's 95-group limit.

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He has not officially urged a 150 group Air Force, but if anyone should ask Finletter, he is behind the idea 100%.

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They listened as 64-year-old Thomas K. Finletter, onetime special assistant to the Secretary of State, kindly urged Juanita and her colleagues to accept "a limited world government" as their immediate aim.

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And the De Sapio statement was a direct challenge to the Democratic likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Lehman and Thomas K. Finletter, all leaders in the anti-De Sapio movement.

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At the same time, realizing that De Sapio & Co. could not be persuaded to accept Finletter, Harriman switched his major effort to Thomas Murray, onetime Atomic Energy commissioner, and generally classified as a little less to the Democratic left than Tom Finletter.

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