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Only two U. S. Ambassadors still hold over from the Hoover Administration. They are Joseph Clark Grew in Japan. Fred Morris Dearing in Peru. Both are able career diplomats who presumably will be continued at their present posts. Also last week President Roosevelt appointed the following U. S. Ministers: Bert Fish of Florida to Egypt. Lawyer, judge, spry campaign cash collector, Minister Fish owns large citrus groves around De Land. James Marion Baker of South Carolina to Siam. Frederick Augustine Sterling of Texas to Bulgaria. Career Diplomat Sterling has served as Minister to the Irish Free State since...
...comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...
...Latin-American State. Finally they arrive at the Greek island. Travers cannot persuade the engineers to give up their project, elects to have himself blown up with the temple. Meantime, Mrs. Travers and Mantell have gotten tired looking for Travers, have decided to concentrate their attention on each other. Bert the seaman, it turns out. was the only one who had an inkling of what his dreamy employer was groping for. "You think a man is not quite all there if he puzzles you," he tells the electrician just before the temple goes up. "He can't be right...
...rides up and down the street on his velocipede all day long singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'" Lou Hill likes to sing himself. In the Bible Church of hoodlum Cicero, Ill. he got himself photographed in an impromptu hymn sing (see cut) with four other gangsters turned evangelist: Bert Baker, onetime Capone man, Fred Jacover, "high class confidence man," Fred Ingersoll, "slickest automobile thief of them all," and Ralph Teter, "brains of the $350,000 Dearborn Station mail robbery...
Into the eastern sky over the English Channel vanished Harold J. L. ("Bert") Kinkier last January, off from England to regain his oldtime speed record to Australia. He was not sighted again. Last week in the Pratomagno Woods near Florence, Italy a group of charcoal burners stumbled upon the wreckage of an airplane. About 30 feet away lay a body identified by clothing marks as Pilot Hinkler's. Propeller and engine of the plane were buried in the mountainside. The remainder of the ship was intact, including a full fuel tank...