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Envoy. The man who made the Greenland deal possible was Henrik de Kauffmann, 52. When the Nazis seized Denmark last year, Minister de Kauffmann sat tight in the modest little Danish Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Slight, dapper, greying and grave-faced, he let his staff know that he intended to represent his country's interests, regardless of Nazi-inspired orders from Copenhagen or Berlin. He was ordered to cooperate with the German charge d'affaires. He did not. When the U.S. seized 39 Danish ships, he did not protest, arranged their transfer...
...clock one afternoon last week, Minister de Kauffmann, dapper as usual in his grey suit and roll-brim black hat, hurried into the State Department. Cordell Hull was waiting for him. Waiting also was the agreement that Minister de Kauffmann had negotiated, without the knowledge and against the will of his Nazi-dominated Government at home. Pale and unsmiling, he signed; "Judge" Hull, scowling, affixed his nose glasses and signed after him. By the agreement's terms...
Joseph Clark Baldwin, 44, is a shrewd New York politician who looks like a man-about-town-a very leisurely, prosperous sort of town. Looking at his slick, prematurely grey hair, his invariably dapper dress, or the dapper water colors he paints for relaxation, nobody would think he had ever been an alderman. Still less does he seem a hard-bitten politico with a good liberal record who has beaten Tammany in seven out of eight elections. Oldest of nine children, son of a wealthy New Yorker, he was in the Navy in World War I for six seasick months...
...lived in Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. A small, dark, dapper man, with horn-rimmed glasses and big beak nose anchored by a full mustache, he might have passed as a Hollywood executive, a clothing manufacturer or a prosperous refugee. Few would have spotted him for what he really...
...against eleven major glass-container companies (and one trade association) finally went to trial last week. Jury box and coat racks were pulled out to make room for 23 company lawyers, Special Assistant to the Attorney General Samuel Shepp Isseks, six other Government attorneys. To the witness stand stepped dapper Francis Goodwin Smith, president of aptly named Hartford-Empire Co., which the Government charged had run the industry like a private NRA. Agile Sam Isseks opened fire. As Smith started answering, slowly and with long pauses, prospects were that he would not step down from the stand for good until...