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Ordinarily not much attention would have been paid to it. President Coolidge appointed Robert Edwin Olds, 49, lawyer of St. Paul, native of Duluth, Harvard '97, to be Assistant Secretary of State, to succeed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, appointed Minister to China (TIME, Apr. 13). During the War, Mr. Olds represented the American Red Cross in Europe. He was head of the Red Cross for about three years. At present, he is the American Member of the British-American Joint Arbitration Tribunal created by treaty in 1910, and serving in London. What of it? Nothing...
...been ignored. But Mr. Culbertson has none of the insurgent's zest for battle. To cause embarrassment, embarrasses him. He was willing to resign with honor. The President surveyed the field of honors. There was Peking-but that, he was determined, should go to John Van Antwerp MacMurray, specialist on Oriental diplomacy (TIME, Apr. 13). And there was the lesser honor of Bucharest, scrappy Paris of the Balkans. The post needed a man skilled in big figures, capable of collecting bills which the outgoing minister* has failed to collect. Would Mr. Culbertson take it? He would...
...brother-in-law of said MacMurray, I am forced to say that I think the picture of Mr. Miller flatters MacMurray. Nevertheless, if you are going to try to give the great American public an idea of what a man's face looks like, I hardly think it is fair to cheat even in his favor...
...wish you would note the photograph in your Apr. 13 issue, Page 2, which you have labeled John Van A. MacMurray, as Minister to China. This photograph happens to be of a Mr. Miller who, at one time, was one of the Assistant Secretaries of State...
...picture of Mr. Miller was furnished to TIME on request by a reputable concern which makes a business of furnishing such pictures. Above appears a picture of Mr. MacMurray in person...