Word: dispatches
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Luckily, he was used to quick sartorial changes. So when elegant Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., 47, last week stepped out of his five ambassadorships, one ministership and into a lieutenant colonel's uniform, he did it with neatness and dispatch. In his new job, his business will be U.S. relations with occupied European nations (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg). But his boss will be General Eisenhower instead of Cordell Hull...
First Light. When Moscow published the British denial, the Russian press took pains to couple the item with an otherwise innocuous Ankara dispatch to the London Sunday Times (no relation to the Times of London). This report said that Ambassador Franz von Papen asked the Turks, two months ago, to relay a German proposal that the Wehrmacht voluntarily retreat to prewar boundaries in the west, in return get a "limited free hand in the east." The Sunday Times said that the Turks refused to act, and that nothing came of Ribbentrop's advances. But Russians, reading about it, were...
Many an exsanguine U.S. blood donor sighed with relief last week when he read an excited dispatch from London announcing that beef blood plasma can be used for human transfusions. But the use of beef blood is not new: doctors have long known that it could replace human blood plasma-if every trace of certain beef substances poisonous to man were removed...
Hannegan, happy with a profitable law practice, did not want the new job. But when St. Louis newspapers screamed their editorial heads off ("An affront to thousands," said the Post-Dispatch), he determined to get it. He did, after having been investigated from hell to breakfast. Collector Bob Hannegan tried to make tax-paying as painless as possible: he eliminated long waiting lines, instructed his clerks in the rudiments of courtesy. He went to night school to study taxation...
Like the President, Author Stettinius firmly believes that Lend-Lease will open a new era of postwar trade. But will the dispatch of such Lend-Lease materials as machine tools to England, of complete plants and refineries to Russia, mean serious competition for the postwar U.S.? Under Secretary Stettinius is not worried. He wrote: "What have we to fear? The United States should be the last country in the world to fear competition after the war is won. . . . We shall have by far the greatest industrial power, immense material resources, a country undamaged by the enemy, businessmen who can stand...