Word: carr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chiefly responsible for the Rogers Act and for the rising efficiency of the U. S. foreign service within the last two decades is Wilbur J. Carr, now Assistant Secretary of State. He is an earnest man of 56, with a high forehead and hard-worked eyes; he might have been a minister in Hillsboro, Ohio, if his parents had had their way. Instead he studied shorthand and soon found his way into a clerkship in the Department of State. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (then a confidential secretary to Secretary of State Gresham) picked him up as an able stenographer, then...
Secretaries of State came and went, but Mr. Carr remained the faithful, almost everlasting servant of the Department of State. In 1924 he saw the seed of 1895 reach its full bloom in the Rogers Act. The diplomatic and consular services became one; at last, the U. S. consulate became something more distinguished than a passport and visa office. Thus, able men such as Mr. Kisner, trained in the consular service, can readily step up into ministerships and ambassadorships. Probably the great ambassadorships to the Court of St. James's, to France, to Germany, to Japan will always remain...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Patrick J. ("Paddy") Carr...
...Haven, Conn., November 21.--With tallies by Carr, Trevett and Danielian swelling the Crimson total, the Harvard soccer team came from behind to score a 3 to 2 triumph over Yale here yesterday afternoon...
...apparently commanding lead when the aggressive Yale forward line ran the Crimson backs ragged to score twice. Fletcher and Sleath were the goal-shooters, both taking passes from Ives in sharp scrimmages to slip the ball past Thomas into the Harvard cage. Early in the second quarter Carr counted on a beautiful kick from the sidelines that shot into the goal at an acute angle. At the first-half intermission the Blue...