Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crude for diplomacy. Even from a chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee (who is not expected to be a diplomat) they came perilously close to being a deliberate insult. And there was even a suspicion that they might have been inspired by the White House. In effect, Mr. Ickes having boxed Adolf Hitler's ear, and Mr. Welles having slapped his nose, Mr. Pittman took a roundhouse swing...
...Aryan" ignorance, which presumed that, in European fashion, a Minister of Interior has charge of police and the suppression of crime. Mr. Ickes, who looks after public lands, forests, territorial and insular government, etc., has no authority to look into skulduggery such as Coster-Musica...
...skirmish with U. S. Ambassador William Bullitt. Because U. S. passports for ordinary travelers are not valid in Spain, U. S. citizens who wanted to fight there had to get in and out as best they could. On the way home they often showed up in Paris without passports. Mr. Thompson had to pull many a wire before Ambassador Bullitt would treat them as extraordinary travelers, entitled to re-enter the U. S. without credentials...
...make sure they conformed to the law. So Congress tried to keep the power of the purse in its own hands. Result when Franklin Roosevelt began to spend was an awful series of squabbles between the open-handed New Deal and crusty Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl. When Mr. McCarl's 15-year term of office expired two and a half years ago, Franklin Roosevelt did not bother to appoint a successor. In his great Reorganization Bill he proposed to set up an Auditor General to audit expenditures after they were made, transfer to the Treasury Department...
Twice the President miscalculated. Richard Nash Elliott, a bald, chunky Republican of 65 who served Indiana in Congress for 14 years and was named Assistant Comptroller General by Hoover in 1931, automatically became Acting Comptroller. At first he was accounted an amenable stooge. Of Mr. McCarl's dogged devotion to duty, he amiably remarked: "Times and conditions change...