Among the representatives were the British Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Alexander Cadogan ; Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Andrei Gromyko ( 1909 – 1989 ); Wellington Koo ( 1887 – 1985 ), Chinese Ambassador to the United Kingdom ; and U. S. Undersecretary of State Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. ( 1900 – 1949 ), each of whom chaired his respective delegation.

Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr., protested that this violated an agreement President Roosevelt made with the Soviet Union not to interfere with Soviet cipher traffic from the United States.

Later, in 1945, Harry S. Truman selected Acheson as his Undersecretary of United States Department of State ; he retained this position working under Secretaries of State Edward Stettinius, Jr., James F. Byrnes, and George Marshall.

* Edward Stettinius, Jr. ( 1900 – 1949 ), former United States Secretary of State

His wife, Elizabeth " Betty " Stettinius Trippe ( 1904 – 1983 ) was the sister of United States Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.

Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. ( October 22, 1900 – October 31, 1949 ) was United States Secretary of State under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, serving from 1944 to 1945.

He then served at the United Nations Conference on International Organization in San Francisco in April 1945 as aide to Secretary of State Edward Stettinius.

** 1 ) Special Assistant to the Chairman, Secretary of State Stettinius, U. S. Delegation to the United Nations Conference on International Organizations, San Francisco

Edward Riley Stettinius ( February 15, 1865-September 3, 1925 ) was a United States executive.

* Stettinius v. United States, 22 F. Cas.

* Edward Stettinius, Jr., first United States Ambassador to the United Nations and U. S. Secretary of State

* Edward Stettinius, Roosevelt and the Russians ( New York, 1950 ) a volume of memoirs on the Yalta Conference

Cadogan served in this capacity from 1938 to 1946, and represented Britain at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in 1944, where he became well acquainted with Edward Stettinius and Andrei Gromyko.

They had four children, Elizabeth (" Betsy "), John Terry, Charles White, and Edward Stettinius Trippe, who now resides in Tucker's Town, Bermuda, where he is executive director of the Tucker's Point Club and serves on Bermuda International Airport's advisory board.

Finally on September 26, 1943, the President announced the resignation of Welles and the appointment of Edward R. Stettinius as the new Under-Secretary of State.

The younger Stettinius grew up in a mansion on the family ’ s estate on Staten Island and graduated from the Pomfret School in 1920, after which he attended the University of Virginia until 1924, leaving without a degree ; while at Virginia he became a member of the secret Seven Society.

Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union was nominally managed by Stettinius.

The principal author of the Taft – Hartley Act was J. Mack Swigert of the Cincinnati law firm Taft, Stettinius & Hollister.

This is evidenced by such decisions as the 1839 case Stettinius v. U. S., in which it was held that " The defense can argue law to the jury before the court gives instructions.

) The conference itself was chaired by Stettinius, and U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull ( 1871 – 1955 ) delivered the opening address.

As Secretary of the Treasury, Morgenthau was the first person in the presidential line of succession from June 27 to July 3, 1945, between the resignation of Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the U. S. Senate confirmation of James Byrnes to said office.

Stettinius was born in Chicago, the younger of two sons and third of four children of Edward Reilly and Judith ( Carrington ) Stettinius.

His father, Edward R. Stettinius, Sr. ( 1865 – 1925 ), of German descent, was a native of St. Louis.

Prematurely white-haired, with dark eyebrows, blue eyes, tanned face, and a quick smile, Stettinius was striking in appearance and inspired goodwill.

Stettinius was a character in Robert Conroy's Red Inferno: 1945.

Stettinius was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

His employer at Stirling was O. C. Barber, who also used his influence to make him president at Diamond Match, where Stettinius succeeded him.

They had four children, among them Stettinius's namesake, Edward Stettinius, Jr., who also worked as a business executive, and was Secretary of State for a time.

In 1926, Stettinius began working at General Motors as a stock clerk.

Roosevelt's personal approach to foreign policy prevented Stettinius from making major contributions at these conferences.

Charles W. Yost, Stettinius ' aide, in the State Department and at the conference, followed him as UN Ambassador twenty-six years later.

He served as the Acting Secretary of State for most of the period from January through August 1945 while the Secretaries of State Edward Stettinius and James F. Byrnes were away at conferences.

When he returned to Cincinnati after serving for President Truman, he joined the law firm Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister, which had been founded by another prominent Cincinnati politician, Robert Taft, and became its managing partner.

Both President Roosevelt and the Secretary of State Stettinius were besieged by U. S. press calling for an official reaction to the editorial.

Stettinius resigned from this position in June 1946, after which he became critical of what he saw as Truman's refusal to use the UN as a tool to resolve tensions with the Soviet Union.

* October 31 – Edward Stettinius, Jr., U. S. Secretary of State ( b. 1900 )

Franklin D. Roosevelt set up the Office of Lend-Lease Administration in 1941, appointing steel executive Edward R. Stettinius as head.

The Diaries of Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., 1943 – 1946.

More recently, the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, `` admitted '' to a news conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, that the US might fall behind Russia ( he apparently meant in weapons development ) if the Soviets continue to test in the atmosphere while we abstain.

On 12 March 2007, a consortium led by Prodrive chairman David Richards purchased Aston Martin for £ 475m ( US $ 848m ).

Ben Bernanke, Princeton professor and current chairman of the US Federal Reserve, has argued that monetary policy could respond to zero interest rate conditions by direct expansion of the money supply.

Thurmond served as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court in 1991 and worked closely with Joe Biden, then the chairman.

In the UK, similar to a sizable percentage of public companies in the US, the chairman of the board in public companies is more senior than the chief executive ( who is usually known as the managing director ).

In January 2011, an open letter printed in the Wall Street Journal on the UN-designated Holocaust Remembrance Day from 400 rabbis, including the leaders of all main branches of Judaism in the US, called on Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corp, to sanction Fox News commentator Glenn Beck due to his use of the Holocaust to " discredit any individual or organization you disagree with.

His comments, recorded in the New York Times Magazine, were made when Maverick was the Democratic chairman of the US Congress Smaller War Plants Committee.

Examples include Thomas H. Bailey, founder and former chairman of Janus Capital Group, Geoff Beattie, president of The Woodbridge Company and chairman of CTVglobemedia, George Cope, president and CEO of Bell Canada Enterprise, Edward Rogers III, deputy chairman of Rogers Communications, and former president of Rogers Cable, Arkadi Kuhlmann, chairman of ING Direct, Rob McEwen, chairman and CEO of US Gold Corporation, Minera Andes and the founder, chairman and former CEO of Goldcorp Inc., John Thompson, former chairman of Toronto-Dominion Bank and chancellor of Western, Prem Watsa, chairman, CEO of Fairfax Financial, Lee Seng Wee, former chairman of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Galen Weston, chairman and president of George Weston Limited.

When company chairman Pete Coors was criticized for the company's gay-friendly policy during his 2004 Republican primary campaign for one of the US Senate seats from Colorado, he defended the policy as basic good business practice.

The US government urged UNSCOM executive chairman Richard Butler to withdraw, and " few hours before the attack began, 125 UN personnel were hurriedly evacuated from Baghdad to Bahrain, including inspectors from the UN Special Commission on Iraq and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Elektra responded by counter-suing the group, but in December New York magazine reported rumours that then Warner Music US chairman Doug Morris had offered the group a lucrative new deal in exchange for dropping the suit which was reported to be even more generous than the earlier Krasnow deal.

Two years after the merger of Daimler and Chrysler to form DCX, the U. S .- German conglomerate paid US $ 1. 9 billion for a controlling 34 percent of MMC, in an effort to fulfil chairman Jürgen Schrempp's vision of a " Welt AG " (" world corporation ").

Lord Owen was chairman of Yukos International UK BV, a division of the former Russian petroleum company Yukos, from 2002 to 2005. and a member of the board of Abbott Laboratories, a US healthcare company, from 1996-2011.

Gordon Evans Dean ( December 28, 1905-August 15, 1958 ) was a Seattle-born American lawyer and prosecutor who served as chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission ( AEC ) from 1950 to 1953.

Following his time as deputy chairman of the Mittelstandsausschuß ( similar to the US Small Business Committee ) of the Bundestag in 1981 and 1982, he wrote an article on the " Mierscheid Law " in the Social Democrats ' central journal Vorwärts published on 14 July 1983.

Other candidates being considered for the position included National League president Ford Frick, Democratic National Committee chairman Robert E. Hannegan, former Postmaster General James Farley, US Senator John W. Bricker, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, former federal judge Fred M. Vinson, Ohio Governor Frank Lausche, and Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson.