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Underworld. On the fourth night after their baby's disappearance the Lindberghs, whose legal adviser is Col. Henry Breckinridge, Wilsonian Assistant Secretary of War, descended suddenly and startlingly to the underworld for assistance. The designation by the nation's hero and the daughter of a onetime Ambassador, of Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, two Manhattan 'leggers, to be their accredited agents was widely viewed as a desperate admission that the nation's police system had knuckled under to the nation's criminals. It was at this point that prominent gangsters began trying to enter the case in pursuit of either...
Shipwright, Preacher & Admiral, they were an incongruous assortment. Preacher Dobson-Peacock, often in Norfolk headlines, had a church in Mexico City when the late Dwight Whitney Morrow was Ambassador there. John Hughes Curtis, a builder of small boats, had had professional dealings with rum-runners. Admiral Burrage, who commanded the cruiser Memphis when it brought Col. Lindbergh triumphantly home from France five years ago, is noted for taciturnity and exactitude. His sailors, made to keep their socks up, used to cill...
...stupid. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and was dean and professor of international relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. Also, he has dealt with other countries before. As Bush pointed out, “he was Ambassador to Indonesia,” so it’s not like he has never seen a developing country before...
...Administration wants to be dismissive of the U.N. and try to not be taken seriously at the U.N., then he's the right guy." GARY ACKERMAN, U.S. Representative, on the nomination of Under Secretary of State John Bolton as U.S. ambassador to the U.N., a body Bolton has long criticized...
Introduced as “trailblazers” by former Ambassador Swanee Hunt, who is also director of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), the two women followed parallel professional paths, rising from the bottom of the correctional agencies they now respectively...