Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dodd should be recalled," cried Utah's King...
North Dakota's Nye, as usual, wanted a Senate investigation. He introduced a resolution to direct the State Department to cable Ambassador Dodd for his billionaire's name. But Senator Nye was not to have the fun and publicity which Congressional inquisitors got out of the dictator nightmares of Major General Smedley Butler and Gary's Dr. William Wirt in 1934. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman promptly came to the aid of the State Department by getting the resolution referred to his committee for "study and inquiry...
Bound home from his fishing trip, President Roosevelt declined to comment directly on the Dodd letter, but newshawks aboard the Presidential special learned from his "associates" that he was inclined to share his Ambassador's fears. Though unconcerned about whether any particular billionaire was planning a fascist putsch, the President was represented as believing that a dictatorship might indeed result unless his foes were held in check...
...Berlin meantime Ambassador Dodd, stoutly refusing to divulge names, allowed himself to be pinned down to a statement that "three well-informed Americans talked to me in 1935 and 1936 about certain powerful men who were thinking of a dictatorship...
Crackled the Ambassador's 89-year-old father, John Daniel Dodd, in Fuquay Springs. N. C.: "Will knows everything. You can bet your last dollar that whenever Will says anything he knows what he is talking about. And, furthermore, you might as well try to move the sun as try to make Will tell anything that he's not a mind to tell. He's nearly as stubborn...