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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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Air Secretary Thomas Finletter was just as gloomy as the Alsops.

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Two years after the Finletter report the U.S. has no 70-group Air Force, nor anything near it, nor any appropriations to get it.

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They heard brief talks by Stevenson, Mrs. Roosevelt and Finletter, then pledged nearly $100,000 for Stevenson's preconvention war chest.

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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.

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Finletter explained that racial designations were not used for assignment or administrative purposes but solely for evaluating the integration program and answering questions from the public.

From Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by MacGregor, Morris J.

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