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...Lew Douglas' career in public service began one night in 1922, in the roistering, hillside copper-mining town of Jerome (Ariz.), when a group of citizens sought out a begrimed, grinning mucker and asked him to run for the state legislature on the Democratic ticket. Since then, Lewis W. (for Williams) Douglas, 52, has been led far afield from his chosen career in mining. Last week, President Truman called him from the presidency of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York to be United States Ambassador to England. He will succeed North Carolina's O. Max Gardner...
Arizona Roots. When the call to the ambassadorship came last week, Lew Douglas was in Phoenix which he still calls home. His family roots are deep in Arizona's arid soil. His grandfather left Scotland and a career as a scholar to go prospecting, and hit the jackpot with the fabulous Copper Queen mine at Bisbee. His father, "Rawhide Jim" Douglas, discovered the U.V.X. mine...
...Lew's childhood was spent in mining towns of Arizona and Mexico. He went east for his education at Amherst* and M.I.T. After five years in Arizona's mines, with time out for service in the state legislature, he moved up to Washington and the House of Representatives. He was there when F.D.R. met him and marked him for his Budget Director. Since 1934, he has been vice president of American Cyanimid, principal of Montreal's McGill University, and president of Mutual...
...England's biggest concern would be the new Ambassador's attitude toward her dollar difficulties. If the British remembered F.D.R.'s remark that Douglas seemed more concerned with dollars than humanity, if they were concerned over his dislike for a controlled economy, they could stop worrying. Lew Douglas was an internationalist first, a "hardmoney" man second. Said he: "England is a good risk. But it will be a sorry, sorry day ultimately for this nation when we condition our loans solely on whether they are good risks...
...first time since the Dartmouth game. Sharpshooting center Dave Farrell, and the able assists of wings Johnny Crocker and Bob Feloney, have been sparking the first line, while Sid Greeley of the second trio will be out to repeat his scoring spree started against Princeton. Dick Greeley and Lew Preston are slated to start at defense...