Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lima, but Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles received handsome Dr. Thomsen. Two days before, Dr. Thomsen had informed Mr. Welles that Germany, whose currency export restrictions have long barred the transfer of German estate funds to U. S. beneficiaries, had finally agreed that U. S. heirs would henceforth get their money in full, regardless of their race or creed. Dr. Thomsen is himself an amiable and reasonable man, and deliberate Mr. Welles is a career diplomat of frigid temper, conservative habits, impeccable speech. But Mr. Welles is also the man who wrote for Secretary Hull an extremely sharp note...
...debt and the refugee problem, stronger than the "temporary recall" of Ambassador Hugh Wilson. It was so strong that the Nazi Government did not even let its press tell the German people about it. It was as close to a severance of diplomatic relations as two "friendly" nations can get...
...citizen who had the most to do with getting them home was an adventuresome San Francisco capitalist named Frederick B. Thompson, brother of Novelist Kathleen Norris. In his remarkable past he has played around with such varied characters as Jack London and Mexico's Rebel Pancho Villa. He had long since retired with a comfortable fortune and stomach ulcers when, in 1937, his young son David and his young nephew Jimmy Benét (son of Poet William Rose Benét) went to fight in Spain. Word that David had been wounded took Frederick Thompson posthaste to Madrid...
Frederick Thompson once forced his way into the hospital with a batch of wounded. His activities also involved a skirmish with U. S. Ambassador William Bullitt. Because U. S. passports for ordinary travelers are not valid in Spain, U. S. citizens who wanted to fight there had to get in and out as best they could. On the way home they often showed up in Paris without passports. Mr. Thompson had to pull many a wire before Ambassador Bullitt would treat them as extraordinary travelers, entitled to re-enter the U. S. without credentials...
...Army Engineer Corps, has been on detached duty with WPA since 1935 as assistant administrator in charge of construction projects. He, too, was properly reticent when he departed. But when he returned for a second call that evening, the press knew that Pinky (for complexion) Harrington was to get the No. 1 Relief job. Two days later the President formally named Colonel Harrington as Acting Relief Administrator, and Aubrey Williams to head the National Youth Administration...