Word: grew
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Such a madman, such a King, could touch the Bavarian heart, fire imaginations, make the very enormity of his follies a .source of national pride. "What country but Bavaria could produce a king so mad as ours?" asked contented tradespeople as they grew rich supplying his luxuries. Even today, Ludwig II, who drowned himself in a fury at last, seems a hero to Bavaria...
...Young Turks are not at all sure that they will find a second High Commissioner Bristol in his successor, the first U. S. Ambassador to be sent to Angora-Joseph C. Grew (TIME, May 30). Ambassador Grew is no salty sailor-paladin, but a Department of State "career man," until now Under Secretary of State...
Sirs: I am surprised that your usually (and unusually) well-informed editors should say (TIME, April 18) : "Just as the original 13 American United States grew so mutually jealous that in 1790 it was necessary to set aside the District of Columbia." If you don't know better the causes of the setting aside of the District of Columbia, let Mr. W. E. Woodward, whom you so much admire (TIME, April 25) tell you: "Eighty soldiers mutinied at Lancaster, Pa., in June, 1783. They marched on Philadelphia and appeared in front of the State House where Congress...
...State Department last week formally announced the appointment of Joseph C. Grew, Under Secretary of State, as Ambassador to Turkey, following the receipt of word from Constantinople that Mr. Grew was persona grata to the Turkish Government...
...Grew, a "career" man, has been in the foreign service for 24 years, in Egypt, Mexico City, St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Berlin, Vienna, Berne, Copenhagen. He has been Minister to Denmark and to Switzerland, was Secretary of the American Peace Commission at Versailles, negotiated the Lausanne Treaty (not ratified by the Senate) with the Turkish Nationalist Government. It was also announced that Robert E. Olds, Assistant Secretary of State, would succeed Mr. Grew as Under Secretary of State. Mr. Olds was once law partner of Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg...