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...Errand Boy. Gravely, 76-year-old Cordell Hull sought to correct the impression that he was little more than an errand boy in a State Department actually bossed by Franklin Roosevelt. Between Roosevelt and him there was never an "unfriendly word," although "a few emphatic differences rose between us which we thrashed out bluntly but in a friendly spirit." Hull had to make his own decisions "in the majority of cases." He recommended the moral embargo against Italy during the Ethiopian war. He worked out the details with the British on the overage destroyer deal...
Last week, during a lull in the Palestine fighting, an armored bus under heavy escort headed south from Jerusalem on a mournful errand; it carried the mothers & fathers of the 35 dead to their funeral. The parents stood dry-eyed and solemn as their sons were buried in a common grave on a hillside overlooking the Valley of Fertility. At dawn next day, the uneasy quiet was broken...
...slight, silver-haired spinster boarded a plane for Africa last week on a strange errand. Esther Cummings was off to visit Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan and the Belgian Congo, to put in practice a phonetic language-learning system she had been taught by her missionary father. With it, she thought she could get the hang of any native tongue in three or four days. Her mission (sponsored by the United and Southern Presbyterian Boards): to teach the natives how to teach their own languages to the missionaries...
White-haired, wispy little Lisle Maxwell Sanders-who is often called "Mr. Kieran" for his famed look-alike-was born 49 years ago, the son of a Kentucky farmer and stock trader. When he was eight he went to work as an errand boy in the stockyards, and he gave up his schooling after a single semester of high school. In 1932 he joined the bank as a clerk, and has been there ever since...
Chaperoning is not enforceable; the only actual checkups are made by zealous or the Yard police, who are eager to climb the dizzy heights of Matthews or Thayer on what may well be a fool's errand, or to peer in rooms suspiciously at embarrassed residents and their lady friends. If couples want to evade the law, there is little to stop them. "Chaperons" may suggest a stern body of older men who sit stiffly on the edge of their chairs and rivet their eyes on guilty pairs, but they are actually no more than friends from across the hall...