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Beginning of the incident was late last fortnight when the U. S. Embassy in Berlin handed out copies of a speech which Ambassador Frederic Moseley Sackett was to deliver at the World Power Conference (see p. 54). The Ambassador was in Paris at the time. Upon his return to Berlin one of his first callers was a stocky, white-headed gentleman with ruddy cheeks and a piercing eye which any alert Chicagoan would instantly have recognized as belonging to Samuel Insull, public utility primate of the Midwest (and Maine). Mr. Insull had come (the United Press discovered...
...been an impetuous idea of his own, Mr. Insult's visit did his friends and himself little good. For Chairman Oscar Charles Merrill and Vice Chairman Henry J. Pierce (Electric Bond & Share) of the U. S. delegation both speedily announced that they would never presume to ask Ambassador Sackett to alter his speech, nor would they condone any one else so presuming. Whereupon Mr. Insull called again at the Embassy. Soon it was announced the speech would be delivered as written. Mr. Insull left Berlin for London precipitately, growling at newsgatherers: "I would like to enjoy my European holiday...
Three Mills, Six Cents. The passages which Mr. Insull disliked in the Sackett speech, on the ground they would be misinterpreted by the U. S. public, but which the Ambassador did enunciate for better or for worse, included the following remarks...
Straight as a humming bee Mr. Sackett made for the booth jointly operated by Baltimore and Philadelphia...
...effect this was Mr. Sackett's maiden speech to German Business, ringing with the same reverberant note as his first utterance when he landed: "President Hoover has sent me to carry...