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...picked for and accept the job of Ambassador to Britain. One was that in his role as a representative of Business sense within a reform administration, he had lost out, or felt he had lost out, and taken the opportunity to put the Atlantic between him and the grievous worries of the New Deal beset by a new depression. Another was that besides the job of negotiating the details of a reciprocal trade treaty with Britain, Franklin Roosevelt faces major developments of U.S. foreign policy that make him want his hard-headed friend in London. Both these motives might also...
...this affront to fundamental human rights." To the President and Labor Secretary Frances Perkins he wired that "there should be equitable Federal or State supervision over the status of cemetery employes, protecting them against injustice and also protecting the bereaved and unoffending citizen against a recurrence of such grievous indignity...
...King George. "It is sad to recall," said Leopold III, raising his glass, "that I should, in 1935, have paid to His Majesty King George V and to your dear mother the visit which I pay to Your Majesty today. The sorrows that have befallen your family and mine, grievous as they are, have forged a further link of mutual sympathy and friendship between our royal houses and, through them, between our two peoples...
...Soviet Union, was being chafed about his pet cat, of which he was inordinately fond. 'Well, I should love that cat,' Lapinsky said finally, grinning. 'The other day he scratched one of my manuscripts, and I found that he had saved me from a grievous deviation from the party line.' Lapinsky has disappeared now-no one knows where. Apparently his cat failed him at last...
...physician makes a grievous mistake in his diagnosis, the patient dies, and . . . the undertaker comes into his own. When [the lawyer] makes a mistake he asks for ... [his fee], demands a new trial, and so proceeds ad infinitum...