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...Tiger" Grew. Theodore Roosevelt was the President under whom Joe Grew got his start in the Foreign Service???with extreme difficulty. Joseph, on graduating from Harvard, took two years abroad, sailed for the Far East. From Singapore he and two college friends went up into India with his well-worn set of Kipling...
...Ambassador's three daughters have all married into the Service???Lilla to J. Pierrepont Moffat, now the Department's expert on Disarmament and adroit head of the State Department's Western European division; Elizabeth to Cecil Lyon, Third Secretary at Peiping; Anita to Robert English, Third Secretary at Budapest. It was Mrs. English who swam the Bosporus while her father was Ambassador to Turkey. He fed her chocolate from a boat and played a phonograph to help her rhythm...
...House member with the longest consecutive service???31 years?is Iowa's Representative Gilbert N. Haugen, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture...
Another significant development which he considered worth noting was: "Seventy-two railroads now use trucks to supplement regular shipping service???46 in terminal operations, 15 in the form of store delivery, and 11 to replace local freight trains. On Jan. 1, 1927 railways had more than 225 trucks operating, the route mileage being 4,226. Competing services had 43,207 trucks covering 607,029 route miles. Registration of all trucks in the U. S. was 2,764,222, compared with 2,432,017 the previous year...
That is the keynote, hub, axle, dynamo, driving force, central idea of Rotary?SERVICE???and Rotarians have sent emissaries all over the world to pass the word along and plant more Rotary Clubs, each composed of 50 to 200 representatives of separate professions and "lines...