Word: f
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called back to F. E. (as State Department officials call the Far Eastern Division). Here he learned for the first time what the State Department really is: not a policy-making machine, not a stable of thoroughbred cutaway-horses, not a mess of pigeonholes, but an extremely expert research body for the use of one man, the President. He found it full of extraordinarily well-informed men, was delighted to learn that State's Far Eastern representatives, both at home and in the field, are traditionally among the best. And he learned how heartbreakingly slow the action...
...Washington appointment was as Chief of F. E.-most important link in the chain of policy, the agent who boils down for President and Secretary of State the mass of reports from the field. Here Nelson Johnson was so useful that in 1927, at 40, he was made Assistant Secretary...
...jury found the monopoly extended from the ten big milk-distributing corporations through a dealers' association, a farm milk-producers' association, and milk-bottlers, down through an A. F. of L. milkwagon drivers' union to President Herman N. Bundesen and his Chicago Board of Health, a police officer, Daniel A. Gilbert, and two men who arbitrated price disputes...
...Kansas City, Mo., Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft crossed a picket line and a precedent to dine at the Kansas City Club-despite the fact that the A. F. of L.'s Hotel and Restaurant Employes' union has picketed the club for a year...
Event-of-the-week in the Western Theatre was the arrival in France, to inspect the B. E. F. and handshake his people's allies (as his father did in World War I), of Great Britain's George VI. His Majesty, who served with the R. A. F. in 1918 after shifting over from the Royal Navy, arrived in France by destroyer, accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, who has the title of B. E. F.'s chief liaison officer with rank of Major General. Length of the royal visit was not announced...