Word: go-between
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...keep the records of books in immediate circulation. He should not be allowed to become a carbon copy of the Phillips Brooks House student advisor; his duties will not be psychological or spiritual, although at times he may have to use these methods. But he should be essentially a go-between--the person who opens up the stacks to undergraduates who have a definite need, who has time to explain the situation because that is his only duty, who could bring Widener even further down out of the clouds of graduate and professorial research into the lowest realm of ordinary...
Secretary Cook is in charge of the state archives, government mail, and gubernatorial proclamations and commissions. He is a legal go-between on matters to do with petitions and laws. He has frequently served as acting governor...
These hysterics were produced when a pact between Chancellor Schuschnigg and Chancellor Hitler was arranged last week by that most ominous go-between Lieut. Colonel Franz von Papen. In the first years of the World War, while military attache at the German Embassy in Washington, he was charged by the U. S. Secret Service with paying for the projected blowup of the Welland Canal. It was von Papen who went between Hitler and von Hindenburg, with the ultimate result that an Austrian-born painter of picture post cards became Dictator of Germany. To escape assassination by Nazi radicals who hate...
...recent flight of Dr. John F. Condon, Bronx educator and famous go-between throughout the Lindbergh case, is highly significant. Of especial interest is the fact that, like Colonel Lindbergh, Condon has chosen to fade from the picture just as national excitement and feeling has reached a fever pitch over the impending execution of Hauptmann. In the case of the Lindbergh family one may understand their desire to wait until the whole affair has blown over before returning to the scene. Their presence here would but aggravate a situation already charged with hysteria and fanned to white heat...
...placing in his hands all of the facts at its command. He advised the Company to communicate with the State Attorney's Office, and as a result of this step State operators and McKesson officials arranged for a "trap" on McKesson property, as a result of which a "go-between," alleged to be working in the personal interest of the discredited State official, was arrested. Immediately upon the completion of a special audit of the affairs of the Colorado branch of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., the full amount of all taxes due to the State of Colorado was promptly paid...