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...relations seriously. Last week President Roosevelt indicated how seriously they could take them from now on by planking one of the ablest and most experienced U. S. diplomats into the post that Mr. Cromwell had vacated. To the Senate for confirmation (immediately forthcoming) he sent the name of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 43, chief of the all-important European Division of the State Department...
Correspondents knew that the Department's policy makers would soon collect on the musty second-floor offices-and soon they arrived, Secretary Hull at n p.m., Jay Pierrepont Moffat (Chief of the European Division) in a dinner jacket and black tie, Assistant Secretary Berle to spend the night at his desk. Correspondents also knew that from U. S. diplomats abroad reports would come fast: ¶Dapper, high-strung, Harvard-bred Minister Gordon at The Hague (who had spent most of the two nights before telephoning Washington ) got through an early wire of warning at 2:50 a.m., reported...
...hors d'oeuvres, dinner of soup, roast chicken, vegetables, stewed fruit, coffee, and stout German protestations that such was the regular fare. In the U. S. party, enigmatic, icy, shiny-domed Sumner Welles; black-haired, jovial Chief of the European Affairs Division and crack career Diplomat Jay Pierrepont Moffat; quiet Lucius Hartwell Johnson, onetime Welles secretary newly recruited for this trip. Lights were bright behind the curtained windows. A stop at Stuttgart, 50 miles from the front-the huge station was ghostly under dim lights in its cavernous interior as one detachment of soldiers swung off the Welles train...
...Board of Education to bring to trial and dismiss a teacher named Angela D'Auria, who had told her pupils that a janitor was sending up "fumes" through the classroom ventilators. But Mrs, D'Auria appealed her ouster, and State Education Commissioner Frank Pierrepont Graves found Mrs. D'Auria's dismissal too severe a punishment, ordered her reinstated. (Eventually, the School Board had her retired for disability...
...Communists were produced by the Dies Committee. They apparently existed only in the vast credulousness of some people like a Manhattan socialite named Dudley Pierrepont Gilbert, who had nothing better to do after he lost his money (but not his wife's) in the depression than to organize something called American Nationalists, Inc., which he endowed with a Fascist salute. After that petered out, Mr. Gilbert told the committee, he met a "medium-sized" man named George Rice who said he was a bodyguard-waiter for the Communistic plotters within Manhattan's Harmonie Club (for rich Jews).* "George...