Word: sackett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, as every kidnappee's family is supposed to do. The first thing that D. O. I. Director John Edgar Hoover knew about the case was when he received a telephone message at 7 p. m. from a relative of Mrs. Stoll, onetime Ambassador Frederick M. Sackett Jr. Within 24 hr. the D. O. I. laboratories had the $50,000 ransom note, had found fingerprints and identified them, among nearly five million on file, as belonging to a young Nashville maniac named Robinson. Foolish Kidnapper Robinson named his father in Nashville as intermediary and money-passer...
SHELDON F. SACKETT Managing Editor The Oregon Statesman Salem...
...reaction in Germany entitled Germany Puts the Clock Back. Last week President Mowrer called a sudden meeting of the Association. He reported that the German Government did not like his book. All sorts of wires were being pulled to force his resignation. Before returning to the U. S., Ambassador Sackett had called at the German Foreign Office and pointed out that seeking revenge on one newspaper correspondent was not likely to increase the prestige of the Hitler Government. Correspondent Mowrer added...
...hold their jobs. Walter Evans Edge, Ambassador to France, flapped his elbows and told a Paterson, N. J. crowd: "The Democrats apparently had us on the run a short time ago but now Republicans are plucking up courage and are back on the firing line." At Omaha Frederic Mosely Sackett, Ambassador to Germany, proudly recalled: "I told President Hoover if Germany prospers the United States would be prosperous and he made a study of the situation. Later the President in a long-distance telephone call to Berlin told me about the moratorium. He asked for a letter or telegram saying...
...tribute, everyone agreed last week, was an enormous sheaf of real Greek olive branches laid on Goethe's tomb by the representative of Greece. Ordinary flowers were bestowed in the name of India, Haiti, South Africa, Finland and 70 more nations. The U. S. wreath?not laid by Ambassador Sackett. who was in Paris-was deposited by a grave personage whose dry wit is concealed on public occasions by his Buddha-like mien. Councilor John Wiley, chief prop of Ambassador Willys in Poland. Read the wreath which Mr. Wiley deposited at the foot of Goethe's sarcophagus: The United States...