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...trip to Berlin, Paris, London. Without delay he saw Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for 70 minutes, King Vittorio Emanuele for 45, Il Duce for 75. Mr. Welles held his tongue, but postponed his sailing back to the U. S. for a day. U. S. Secretary of State Hull denied in Washington that Mr. Welles had acted as an intermediary in Europe's quarrels...
...even under existing conditions, Messrs. Roosevelt and Hull should have been able to draw from the pork-barrel a better appointment than that of the present tobacco-minister to Canada. Doubtless they now regret their choice. For by his outspoken attack upon Germany Mr. Cromwell has placed the State Department in a most embarrassing position; many hearers will take Cromwell's outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut...
...Fibber McGee (Johnson's Wax) told Gracie he has heard whispers about Dewey, Hull, Taft and Garner all heading for the White House. Were they just rumors? Said Gracie: "They...
...surface newsprint. Among the citizens of Hartford he managed to raise $75,000 capital. His stockholders include Francis Goodwin Smith Jr., a member of his staff, whose father runs the Hartford-Empire (glass) Co.; Insurance Agent Thomas Russell; Lawyer Thomas Hewes (onetime special assistant to Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...point-blank political questions by a Democratic stalwart (supposedly South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes), who was fed to the gums with the Term III mystery. Mr. Roosevelt was interested to read that he had said flatly: he would not run again unless the Germans overrun England; that Cordell Hull is his choice for successor, is safe, can be elected; that the Vice Presidency lay between Bob Jackson, Paul McNutt, Burt Wheeler; that Jim Farley would not be a sound Vice Presidential candidate on a Hull ticket. Mr. Roosevelt supposedly said that Farley "has done more for me politically than...