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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long a friend of Governor Roosevelt, he is already a member of the committee organizing the proposed World Economic Conference. If the next President decides to scramble debts, disarmament and world trade all up in that parley he would have a long search for a Secretary of State so well trained by experience in the practicalities of such problems as Norman Davis. But perhaps Mr. Roosevelt will find him as Mr. Hoover has, even more useful without portfolio...
...Coffeyville, Kan., made his escape to California. There he married, served as a deputy sheriff, grew well-to-do running a store and tourist camp at Westmoreland. Conscience-stricken, he turned up at Leavenworth in October, announced that he was ready to serve his term. Only after a long search could the Department of Justice find any record of his case. He told his jailer that since 1920 California's Senator Shortridge and Representative Swing had known he was an escaped convict. Because of his good record for 34 years President Hoover last week gave William Kirby Robinson...
...name: "Too many [Prime Ministers] have appeared to lose the faculty of decision. That seems to be one of the faculties that wear out soonest. To decide makes a considerable strain on the nervous force and the strain increases with apprehended unpopularity of the decision. Then ensues a search for some means to avoid effort. Postponement in its various forms is welcomed. Some so-called compromise is adopted which leaves all difficulties unsolved. Or a royal commission is appointed. Or the state of business in the House of Commons is declared to make action impossible. Or the matter is simply...
...crusader. The establishing of his whereabouts last week only heightened the mystery surrounding his disappearance. On Sept. 10, Mrs. Robins announced she was sure her husband had been killed by vengeful bootleggers. Month and a half later, two weeks after a visit to the White House from which the search was originally directed, she said she felt sure he would turn up "after the election...
...education. Starting out with a few assigned routine sources of information, the intelligent and ambitious candidate soon begins to delve into the vast resources of the University. Not only does he come into close contact with the different departments scattered throughout Cambridge, but in the natural course of his search for news he makes connections with men, both prominent and otherwise, which often in themselves repay the effort of eight weeks' solid work. Nor are these acquaintanceships confined to the University, as all the News candidates are urged to obtain interviews from leading figures throughout the country. The candidate learns...