Word: dodds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first serious flaying at the hands of a responsible U. S. statesman on the Senate floor. Senator Robinson's address, carefully prepared for domestic consumption, touched off a series of oratorical explosions against Germany. When the barrage was over, the Senate placidly confirmed the nomination of William Edward Dodd, 63-year-old professor of U. S. History at the University of Chicago, to be Ambassador to Germany...
President Roosevelt had lingered long and uncertainly over this third most important diplomatic appointment. He had chosen a quiet, scholarly North Carolina Protestant who could be counted on to keep his head amid Germany's racial uproar. The day of his appointment Dr. Dodd was digging in his Chicago flower garden when a newshawk asked him: "You talk German fluently?" "Yes," chuckled the professor, "that's what has got me into this trouble...
...with the Southern Baptists for the first time since Slavery divided them. Retiring President Charles Oscar Johnson of the Northern Baptists and Dr. Monroe Elmon Dodd of the Southern Baptists visited President Roosevelt. Said they: "Mr. President, we are back...
Appointed. Walter Prichard Eaton, 55, drama critic and playwright; as professor of playwriting at Yale's Drama School, succeeding George Pierce Baker. Dramatist Lee Wilson Dodd, who was to have succeeded Dr. Baker, died fortnight ago (TIME...
Died. Lee Wilson Dodd, 53, poet, dramatist, novelist (Speed, The Changelings, Pals First, The Book of Susan); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Next autumn he was to have succeeded Professor George Pierce Baker as active instructor of playwriting in Yale's famed Department of Drama...