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Massachusetts. Onetime Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston with the enthusiastic if somewhat juvenile support of Son James Roosevelt got a better office out of the New Deal than the Ambassadorship of Poland which he spurned When Franklin Roosevelt offered it last year. Without the support of many a potent Massachusetts Democrat and in spite of Republican Gasper Bacon's hammer & tongs attack on his record, Votegetter Curley piled up a majority for Governor bigger than the Democratic majority...
...Ismet Pasha, now Premier of Turkey, he has jocularly been said to have met his match. Both deaf, they shouted back & forth across the conference table at each other in French. Ten years later Mr. Grew, one of the first career men to be promoted to an Ambassadorship, became the first U. S. Ambassador to Dictator Kemal Pasha's new Republic (TIME...
...Curley wished to represent the United States at Rome, Mr. Curley wished to represent the United States at Dublin, for one reason or another. But he felt that the ambassadorship to Poland was a trifle remote and declined President Roosevelt's appointment. This would be pretty choosy for most people, yet the ex-mayor seems to know what he is after. If he intends to heel for a cabinet sinecure, he no doubt looks forward to a prosperous four years in Washington. But it might he well to draw to his attention the fact that several secretaries...
Back on his White House job President Roosevelt last week filled his fifteenth and last ambassadorship when he appointed Henry Hulme ("Hal") Sevier of Corpus Christi, Tex., to represent him in Chile* Born 55 years ago in Tennessee. Ambassador Sevier was transplanted to Texas in early youth, worked as a cowboy, sat in the State Legislature at 21, published a newspaper at Austin. Today "Hal" Sevier is tall, greying, courtly...
...Holland, William Gorham Rice, New York State Civil Service Commissioner and onetime private secretary to Grover Cleveland; Minister to Canada, Warren Delano Robbins, the President's first cousin and the Department of State's Chief of Protocol. Still being kept wide open to await developments was the Ambassadorship to Germany...