Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether No Questions Asked is an argument, a melodrama or a penthouse comedy neither its author nor its producer seem to be sure. Its two qualifications as entertainment are a palatial but cozy set by P. Dodd Ackerman and three of Broadway's most pleasant and conversationally nimble actors...
...true as Swedes believe that their scrawny old King Gustaf talked the roughest sort of turkey to Chancellor Adolf Hitler on his last visit to Berlin, then His Majesty has few more ardent admirers than the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, outwardly mild but inwardly rampant William Edward Dodd, onetime professor of history at the University of Chicago...
Some of the thoughts which have crossed Professor Dodd's mind since he reached Berlin have been bold in the extreme. He expresses himself strongly to Mrs. Dodd and the children. By last week he had called twice on the German Foreign Office, to demand equal treatment for Germany's U. S. creditors who are receiving far less than her Dutch and Swiss creditors. This outrage, Professor Dodd would like to have hotly told Chancellor Hitler, must be corrected...
When President Roosevelt found that Ambassador Dodd's first and second calls had produced not even a reply he took what Germans last week regarded as the "unprecedented" step of summoning to the White House owlish German Ambassador Dr. Hans Luther. On his departure bald Dr. Luther pinked hotly when he discovered that correspondents knew what the President had called him on the carpet about...
...DEATH WISH-Elisabeth Sanxay Holding-Dodd, Mead ($2). Long Island society, his neighbors and his rich wife are too much for poor, ponderous Delancey. Had it not been for the calm young guest next door, he might have been convicted of two murders...