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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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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

Never a flyer himself, 56-year-old Tom Finletter comes from a socialite Philadelphia family and is a Manhattan corporation lawyer, a United World Federalist, an avid student of history and an expert in international economics.

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

But the one man who would sit in the most important spot, if the President and Congress adopted the Finletter military procurement program, was the Secretary of the Air Force: W. Stuart Symington.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is the same information that I gave to Secretary of the Air Force, Thomas K. Finletter, to the Air Force commanders, to scientists and industrialists.

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

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