Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CANCELLED IN RED-Hugh Penfecost -Dodd, Mead ($2). The shooting of a racketeering stamp broker solved by another dealer, dapper Larry Storm, and by soft-voiced Inspector Bradley of the Manhattan force. Ably-plotted, humorous, backed with authoritative philatelic glue...
...committee is headed by Ralph Barton Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy; the rest of the committee is composed of E. Merrick Dodd Jr. '10, professor of Law; Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History; Harlow Shapely, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; Kenneth Murdock, professor of English; Edmund M. Morgan '02, Royall Professor of Law; and William S. Ferguson, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History...
Last December, a car driven by scholarly, Nazi-hating William Edward Dodd, former U. S. Ambassador to Germany, hit four-year-old Negro Glois Grimes near Hanover Courthouse, Va. Dr. Dodd, arrested on a hit-&-run charge, pleaded not guilty. On trial last week, he changed his plea, threw himself on the mercy of the court. His daughter, Martha Dodd Stern, testified that he had declined mentally and physically since the death of his wife last spring. His lawyer said that he had already paid over $1,100 in hospital and doctors' bills to Glois Grimes's parents...
Gradually Martha Dodd got over her Nazi measles, and by the time of the Purge (1934), she was even more violently anti-Nazi than her father. A trip to Russia, on which she never once removed her rose-colored spectacles, confirmed her in the anti-faith. She describes horrific tortures inflicted on concentration-camp prisoners ("a few I know of directly"), thinks "there is still a good deal of organized opposition among the people in Germany...
...queerest choices Franklin Roosevelt ever made was to pick William Edward Dodd, a history professor brimming with academic ideals, stiff-necked with homey truths and tactlessness, as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. That Martha Dodd is her father's daughter any reader of Through Embassy Eyes will quickly see. Her account of the increasingly uneasy four and a half years the Dodds spent in Berlin is like a series of blurted indiscretions. But no one could live so long in such a focal spot in complete diplomatic immunity: some of what Martha Dodd has to tell is worth listening...