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...special assistant to, and croquet-playing friend of Secretary of State Hull. During the Spanish Civil War, as Hull's respected political adviser in European affairs, he was a powerful influence in holding U.S. policy to an embargo on arms for both sides in Spain-to the chagrin of the U.S. left wing. Secretary of State Stettinius appointed him Assistant Secretary in 1944, and he was started on his ambassadorial round-to Italy...
...chagrin, Sarge made the same discovery. Beset with visitors, he grumbled: "Writing that letter to TIME was the dumbest thing you ever...
...moved to Texas City three years ago after working on several west Texas dailies, went to work. He sent reporters out to visit the joints, ran descriptions of them and their operators. At one point Ragsdale led Texas Rangers to 320 slot machines hidden in a barn, to the chagrin of Ranger Chief Homer Garrison Jr., who had said Texas was "clean as a whistle...
...manager helped add chagrin to defeat when he scored an extra point in Yale's 41 to 14 conquest of the Crimson November...
Sportswriters are all frustrated athletes anyway--maybe it was a feeling of sympathy that made them remember the play. Or maybe they thought Harvard's chagrin was funny...