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...Hard-working Ambassador William Bullitt got off the transatlantic Clipper at Baltimore but, unlike returning Ambassadors Kennedy and Davies, did not come out swinging for the third term. He rushed to the State Department, conferred with Secretary Hull, stopped at the White House. To reporters he would say only that he had 50 to 75 things to discuss with officials, made some inconsequential remarks look more important by making them off the record...
Simultancously, Secretary of State Cordell Hull emphasized at a press conference that American vessels still are under strict orders to refuse conveys such as Great Britain reportedly is prepared to offer U.S. ships forced to submit to contraband inspection in belligerent waters...
...Farley is as practical a politician as ever whispered. He is also a Roman Catholic. Dopesters guessed that Jim would gladly yield the Presidency to 68-year-old Cordell Hull, but would dearly love to be Vice President. And Jim's friends think the No. 2 job is not beyond a Catholic's reach. But Jim Farley knows that no man ever got the Vice-Presidency by running for it. So Jim's first campaign speech sounded as if he was shooting for the moon and hoping to hit at least the broad side of the barn...
Next day from Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull dispatched a cable to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, asked him to investigate, do what he could to spring Marjorie's husband. Meantime Jimmy caught cold, was moved to more comfortable quarters, allowed to see his wife. Japanese officials said they had detained Jimmy for questioning, refused bail, refused to say what the charges were against him. At week's end Jimmy Young was still in clink...
EXPERIMENT-Helen Hull-Coward, McCann...