Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, for 35 years in the U. S. Foreign Service, is rated one of the ablest career diplomats in U. S. employ. For the last seven years he has held down one of the toughest diplomatic assignments which the State Department has to hand out, the post of Ambassador to Japan. No small measure of his success has been the amiable, unostentatious way he has done...
That this reply was made on Mr. Grew's advice there was little doubt, but its wording came from Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Coming on top of Mr. Welles's refusal last fortnight to apologize to Germany for Secretary Ickes' remarks on Adolf Hitler, it looked like step No. 2 in a new U. S. policy of speaking to international bullies in language which they can understand...
...Harvard who referred to his assistant's remarkable success, told how he had treated a 21-year-old girl who suffered from extremely rapid breathing. When she was a year old she had fallen into a cesspool and, in addition to shock, had contracted pneumonia. When she grew up she went to work for an asthmatic woman, whose condition made the girl more susceptible to psychiatric asthma. After 15 treatments by hypnosis, during which Dr. Cobb suggested that she breathe slowly, the girl was cured...
Logan Pearsall Smith's autobiography, written aboard Edith Wharton's yacht, is eloquent, charming, but hardly exemplary. Descended from a family of fashionable Philadelphia Quakers, little Logan grew up in surroundings at once prosperous and zealously religious. His father was both an executive in the family glass factory, and a famed Quaker revivalist, as successful on manorial lawns in England (until he excited too much ecstasy in female converts) as in suburban camp meetings. His mother, an even more effective stirrer-upper, became known as "the Angel of the Churches...
...power politics and recurring warfare of the old world, and profoundly desirous of a separate, peaceful life on this continent, they have thought and acted in terms of a fundamental division of the world. But while thus pleasantly immersed in eighteenth and early nineteenth century thinking, their nation grew into a major world power; and, except for a brief flurry of world-consciousness in 1920--denied expression by destructively adroit political manipulation in the Senate--this wishful thinking continued and increased. Until very recently America has been deeply, blindly isolationist...