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...Washington conference was generaled by U.S. Treasury Secretary John Wesley Snyder, a rather unimaginative banker, and by Sir Wilfrid Eady, whose thin face, horn-rimmed spectacles and realistic command of facts make him the embodiment of the British civil servant. The details of the talk between them and their experts the world did not hear. But it heard much of the $3,75° million loan to Britain, and of "discrimination" and of "convertibility" (see INTERNATIONAL) . The conferees could bring about no full solution of the crisis; that was for the U.S. Congress and for Parliament, if a solution could...
...some years a Prussian civil servant, later vice consul in Zurich, Author Gisevius claims to have been a member of an eager, unstable and heterogeneous group which schemed against Hitler from the Reichstag fire (1933) down through World War II. He regards Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg (the man who nearly killed Hitler on July 20, 1944) as a Johnny-come-lately with half-Nazi ideas of his own. It was Stauffenberg who lugged a bomb-laden briefcase into field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, and left it to explode under Hitler's nose. The blast gave Hitler...
...Punch cartoon showed a servant of Her Majesty's Treasury waving aside a bearded gentleman with a bundle of pictures. The caption: "Much obliged, but we are a nation of shopkeepers. We don't want any art today, thank you." The snubbed picture-pedlar, as every Punch reader knew, was a Lancashire-born sugar baron named Henry Tate. He had just offered 60 contemporary paintings to Britain's National Gallery-and had been turned down. Five years later, he retaliated millionaire-fashion by building Britain a brand-new gallery and throwing in his collection as a bonus...
...like Bob Taft, he is the symbol of the New Deal, of Big Government, of hostility to business. To his friends he is a public servant of the highest order. His ability is cited by his friends as an argument in his favor, by his enemies as a proof of his danger. On one point everyone is agreed: Lilienthal, who loves horses, is a hard rider of men and ideas...
...Public Servant. Then in 1931 Wisconsin's Governor Phil La Follette asked him to join the state's public service commission. Lilienthal walked the streets of Madison all night, turning the offer over in his mind. Next morning he telephoned his wife, asked her advice and accepted the $5,000-a-year job. La Follette said that that night Dave Lilienthal decided to make public service his career...