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Thus the New Deal added another literary light to its representatives overseas who already include: Novelist Meredith Nicholson, Minister to Paraguay; Historian William E. Dodd, Ambassador to Germany; Journalist Claude G. Bowers. Ambassador to Spain; Publisher Lincoln MacVeagh, Minister to Greece...
Died. Franklin MacVeagh, 94, onetime (1909-13) Secretary of the Treasury, longtime wholesale grocer, great-uncle of U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh; of bronchial pneumonia; in Chicago. Farm-born, Yale-bred, he entered politics as a Democrat, could not stomach the Bryan Silver Policy, turned Republican, later disturbed Republicans by urging lower tariffs. In 1928 he supported the Smith candidacy...
...last week in his Athens apartment while two potent gatherings debated his future and his past. In Athens the entire Greek Cabinet, which had once decided to deport him Jan. 31, argued his future for two hours. The Foreign Minister, having taken the brunt of U. S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh's ire, was for deportation, the Minister of Interior against. Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was on the fence. The spell of cold, wet weather Greece has been having decided the argument. Premier Tsaldaris announced that "in the present inclement weather, it would be murder to deport Mr. Insull unless...
...tired," he said. "Send up a beefsteak, peas and fruit salad." Taking off shoes and coat in his suite Old Sam Insull dined alone while young Forest Harness digested the Greek Court's 6,000-word decision and conferred with U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh. Next day, without announcing his visit in advance, Minister MacVeagh descended wrathfully on the Greek Foreign Office, spoke his mind to flustered Foreign Minister Demetrios Maximos who perspired profusely, waved his hands and wriggled in his chair but stood firmly by the guns of Greek Justice. Later Mr. MacVeagh returned to smack...
...gleefully welcomed into the Roosevelt "Brain Trust." A relatively poor man, he hopes to get along in Berlin on his $17,500 salary. "After all," said he, "the days of show are over." Last week President Roosevelt also made the following diplomatic appointments which the Senate confirmed: Lincoln MacVeagh of New Canaan, Conn. to be Minister to Greece. A Groton-Harvard man like the President, Mr. MacVeagh is head of the Dial Press. His father was Coolidge's Ambassador to Japan; his uncle, Taft's Secretary of the Treasury; his grandfather, Garfield's Attorney General. Minister MacVeagh...