Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish interests would be protected in the Fatherland. But no Jew seemed to want the hottest U. S. embassy. Even rich Gentiles seemed to have no zeal to be Ambassador to Nazi-dom and the President had to coax into service able but impecunious Professor William Edward Dodd (TIME, June 19. 1933). Last week, however, the still thumping idea of sending a Jew as Ambassador to Berlin was executed with a bang by Joseph Stalin...
...baritone. He is an unspectacular but able public speaker, much in demand. For an opener he can generally get a laugh with this old chestnut: "A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other." In personal life Harold Dodds might be any one of 10,000 college professors, except that he has no children. For fun and exercise he plays golf; a 90 delights him. . He used to like to putter in his garden but such an avocation is not for the resident of big, brown "Prospect." When there...
SHORT STORIES, SCRAPS AND SHAVINGS -Bernard Shaw-Dodd, Mead...
...messengers re-elected as their president Dr. Monroe Elmon Dodd, a bald, jovial, Tennessee-born cleric who stepped up from a vice-presidency last year when President Fred T. Brown fell ill. Dr. Dodd went to Shreveport, La. 22 years ago where he helped found a college named Dodd in his honor, of which he is still president. This year he traveled 50,000 miles on Southern Baptist business. A lusty parliamentarian, he whammed his gavel often last week, told the messengers: "Our church is stronger spiritually today than in years. Men are spending more of their time on their...
BLACK FOG-Charles J. Dutton-Dodd, Mead ($2). Murder by poison gas in New England brings Detective Rogan out of pseudo-retirement...