Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their presence was completely eclipsed by the arrival four days earlier of another Ambassador named Joseph. Home from his complete capture of London was "Joe" Kennedy with flashing smiles for the press, a "long and somewhat cheerless" report to the President about conditions abroad, emphatic denials of any mission more secret than attending Joe Jr.'s class day exercises at Harvard...
...Turrou, 42, had been in the Bureau for nine years. Russian-born, an able linguist, he served in the Marines after the War and with Herbert Hoover's relief mission in Russia. In the Lindbergh Case, he helped dig up the ransom money in Hauptmann's garage, wangled samples of Hauptmann's handwriting to match with the ransom notes. When the dirigible Akron was abuilding, he grew a beard and became a laborer to detect sabotage. For his work on a white slave ring in Connecticut (40 convictions), he was advanced to the highest pay bracket...
With the U. S. supplying these much-needed reconnaissance and training ships, new Secretary of State for Air Sir Kingsley Wood intends to keep Britain's factories rolling out bombers and fighting planes. Both U. S. contracts are a result of investigations by Britain's air mission, which returned to England fortnight ago after scouting production facilities of U. S. and Canadian concerns. No Canadian contracts were let last week but the Ministry admitted that a move to aid Canadian aircraft production, in line with the mother country's longview program to make the Dominions self-sufficient...
Young, radical Corliss Lamont, son of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lamont, received last week a special permit to pass behind Lenin's tomb in Red Square, Moscow to the Red heroes' burial place at the base of the Kremlin Wall. His mission was to investigate the grave of John Reed, U. S. Communist, journalist and poet. He found it intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been...
...reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano in a Los Angeles mission, shifts to the trumpet under the influence of some first-class Negro musicians, and makes his first success while playing with a group of college boys at a California summer resort. Aside from his music, there is almost no story to his life: he marries a rich girl but she soon leaves...