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Last to step from the limousine and lie down under the robbers' guns, was Charles Schuveldt Dewey, financial adviser to Poland for the last two-and-a-half years. Aside from Mr. Dewey's letter of credit, which the Rumanian robbers scorned, they took from his well-lined pockets $2,000 in cash...
Rumanian censorship is famed. The robbery was kept secret for two days, though private apology was made by the Government to Mr. Dewey. On the third day the story leaked out, and in pompous full dress a whole troop of high officials arrived at Mr. Dewey's hotel to make official, abject apology, promise vengeance, restitution...
...Gentlemen, gentlemen! Spare your apologies!" soothed genial Mr. Dewey. "You forget that my country has its Chicago. Perhaps your bandits are preferable to ours. When ours 'take us for a ride' we never return. Your robbers spared our lives and gave us the very good advice that we should drive as fast as possible to your splendid capital...
...eulogies of Mr. Dewey which burst forth next day in Bucharest papers he was called "true sportsman . . . generous, understanding friend . . . perfect American gentleman...
...must depend for success on the chance that he could kindle in his discerners some intuitive appreciation of what to them would be new, wholly foreign beauties. Socially he was well sponsored, by the China Institute in America, more particularly by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Charles R. Crane, John Dewey, Otto Hermann Kahn. Esthetically he represented a tradition which countless Emperors had applauded. But he had his worries...