Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington an "authoritative White House source" revealed that the successor to Ambassador William E. Dodd in Berlin, who handed in his resignation last summer, would be Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson. Next day even bigger news broke. The New York Times, whose White House pipe line is the envy and despair of other papers, revealed that Robert Worth Bingham, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (now recuperating from malaria at Johns Hopkins), would be replaced by Irish Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
...London with a quorum of their nine children, an old tradition of U. S. diplomacy will have been broken: for the first time in history, a U. S. Ambassador to Britain will be 1) Irish and 2) Catholic. Career Man. Ambassador William E. Dodd's departure from Berlin has long been foreshadowed by his open, undiplomatic detestation of Nazi methods, which reached its climax last summer, when he publicly protested against the State Department's granting of permission to his aide, Prentiss Gilbert, to attend a Nazi Party Congress at Nurnberg (TIME, Sept. 20). Said he last week...
...parents by going into business when he left Yale in 1906, Hugh Wilson married and started in at the bottom of the foreign service ladder as private secretary to the U. S. Minister to Portugal in 1911. Rungs thereafter included service in legations or embassies at Guatemala, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Vienna, Tokyo and Berne. In 1927 he got his first top-flight appointment as Minister to Switzerland, since then has maintained a perfect attendance record at European conferences to which the U. S. sent delegations until the Nine-Power Conference at Brussels last month...
...mentally ailing composer had left the concerto to Violinist Joseph Joachim, whose will consigned it to remain unheard until the 100th anniversary of Schumann's death (TIME, Aug. 23). (Joachim considered the concerto not up to snuff.) Since 1907 the concerto had rested securely in the archives of Berlin's Prussian State Library, where its existence had been well known to scholars and had been noted in dozens of bibliographies and musical dictionaries. Last April, German Music Publisher Wilhelm Strecker sent photostats of the original manuscript to Menuhin, asking his opinion of the work. Menuhin replied with...
University fellowships to: Harold W. Davey 2G, of Syracuse, New York; Guy H. Dodge 4G, of East Cleveland, Ohio; Henry F. May, Jr. 1G, of Berkeley, Californio; Frederic C. Murphy 2G, of Berlin, New Hampshire; and David McC. Wright 1G, of Savannah, Georgia...