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...popular with the U. S. colony in Berlin as his immediate predecessor was unpopular is Frederic Moseley Sackett, the new U. S. Ambassador* (TIME...
Embassy officials are now confiding to their friends: "He's a great chief!" And last week the interest of U. S. citizens in Germany was aroused when Great Chief Sackett put on his long, heavy, fur-lined coat, sank his square jaw in its black Persian lamb collar, and went out to have a look at the famed Leipzig Fair (TIME, March...
...quietly that few were conscious of his going, Frederic Moseley Sackett, until lately Senator from Kentucky, sailed out of New York harbor last week aboard the S. S. President Harding to take up the first diplomatic duty of his life as U. S. Ambassador to Germany. With him went Mrs. Sackett. Their departure was almost drab. Only a handful of friends Godsped them from the Hoboken pier. In contrast to the departure for Paris of Ambassador Edge, that other Senator also just beginning a diplomatic career, nobody asked Ambassador Sackett to make any farewell speeches. Nobody gave him any parting...
...were wealthy; neither was brilliant. Both were Republican regulars in the Senate; neither had distinguished himself there for knowledge of foreign affairs. Behind the two appointments politics was equally apparent. For his bright post in Paris, Ambassador Edge had the aid of a young and beauteous wife. But Mrs. Sackett, a dignified and conservative matron of her husband's years, was sure to appeal no less strongly to the sober Teutonic temperament...
Ambassador Sackett will apply himself as a businessman to the expansion of trade. Born in Providence 61 years ago, he was graduated from Brown, became a migrating lawyer, finally settled in Louisville. His corporation practice put him at the head of Louisville Gas Co. He acquired coal mines, dipped into politics, was carried to Washington as Kentucky's Senator by the Coolidge sweep of 1924. Short, sandy, round-stomached, he plodded through his term, rarely made a speech, much less an oration. He was on the way to becoming a "lame duck" in this year's campaign when...