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Finletter

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[fin-let-er] / ˈfɪnˌlɛt ər /

noun

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


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Last week the President nominated bald, sharp-eyed Thomas Knight Finletter for the job.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the Finletter Commission report was finished he was appointed head of the EGA mission to Britain, stayed on until last summer.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

On May 8, 1952, Lieutenant Colonel R. J. Taylor of Colonel Dunn's staff and I presented an hour-long briefing to Secretary Finletter and his staff.

From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.

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