Nominated U.S. Secretary of State Edward R.

Nominated U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinus Jr., United States Under Secretary of State, at his desk in Washington after being nominated Secretary of State by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. If the nomination is ratified by the U.S. Senate, Mr. Stettinus will succeed Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who resigned because of ill health. Mr. Hull, 73 years old, had served in that position for 11 years after a distinguished Congressional career. Mr. Stettinus, 44, directed American Lend-Lease from 1941 until he was appointed Under Secretary of State in 1943, and during the Postwar Security Conference at Dumarten Oaks he was chairman of the U.S. delegation and of the conference. Before entering public life he began an industrial career as a laborer, eventually rising to chairman of the Board of the U.S. Steel Corporation, one of the nation's largest.