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on international economic affairs. In 1943, he was appointed executive director and later deputy director of the Office of Foreign Economic Coordinator (OFEC). In this post, he was in charge of planning economic activities related to liberated areas and was in control of matters of foreign exchange
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established a temporary, five-man commission that inquired into all phases of aviation and drafted the national air policy report. This commission was sometimes known as "The Finletter Commission". Finletter served as chairman of the Air Policy Commission which, on January 1, 1948, sent to the
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and matters relating to the operations of the Alien Property Custodian. Finletter resigned his post in 1944, when the functions of OFEC were absorbed by the newly created
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In 1958, Finletter was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate from New York. He won the support of some liberal reformers, prominently including
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In 1965, following his term as Ambassador to NATO, he retired from government service and returned to his law practice with the firm of
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Finletter practiced law in New York until he began his government service in 1941, as a special assistant to Secretary of State
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for the 1968 Democratic nomination for president, on the issue of the
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in 1961. He served in that office until 1965 when he was replaced by
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on April 24, 1950, in which office he served until January 20, 1953.
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Eugene McCarthy and the Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism
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He returned back to public service July 18, 1947, when President
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Interim Report on the U.S. Search for a Substitute for Isolation
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president the report entitled "Survival in the Air Age."
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was inadequate to maintain world peace, and advocated a
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United States Ambassador to NATO
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Harlan Cleveland
United States Secretary of the Air Force
Harry S. Truman
Stuart Symington
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