Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...APPLE AND EVE-Jo Van Ammers-Kiiller-Dodd, Mead ($2). Solid novel about Dutch marital problems by a solid Dutch novelist...
...other U. S. Ambassadors: Argentina-Alexander Wilbourne Weddell Belgium-Dave Hennen Morris Brazil-Hugh Simons Gibson Cuba-Sumner Welles France-Jesse Isidor Straus Germany-William Edward Dodd Great Britain-Robert Worth Bingham Italy-Breckinridge Long Japan-Joseph Clark Grew Mexico-Josephus Daniels Peru-Fred Morris Dearing Poland-John Clarence Cudahy Spain-Claude Gernade Bowers Turkey-Robert Peet Skinner...
...first serious flaying at the hands of a responsible U. S. statesman on the Senate floor. Senator Robinson's address, carefully prepared for domestic consumption, touched off a series of oratorical explosions against Germany. When the barrage was over, the Senate placidly confirmed the nomination of William Edward Dodd, 63-year-old professor of U. S. History at the University of Chicago, to be Ambassador to Germany...
President Roosevelt had lingered long and uncertainly over this third most important diplomatic appointment. He had chosen a quiet, scholarly North Carolina Protestant who could be counted on to keep his head amid Germany's racial uproar. The day of his appointment Dr. Dodd was digging in his Chicago flower garden when a newshawk asked him: "You talk German fluently?" "Yes," chuckled the professor, "that's what has got me into this trouble...
Graduated by Virginia's Polytechnic Institute in 1895, young Dodd went to Germany, took his Ph. D. at the University of Leipzig. Later he taught history at Randolph-Macon, went to the University of Chicago in 1908. A professorial friend of Professor Woodrow Wilson, he went frequently to the White House, in Washington met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. With Ray Stannard Baker he edited President Wilson's papers for publication. He has written Jefferson's Rückkehr zur Politik (an account in German of Jefferson's first Presidential campaign), Life of Jefferson...