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Meanwhile the U. S. State Department's famed "Trouble Shooter," George Charles Hanson, sailed from Manhattan to become U. S. Chargé d'Affaires in Ethiopia. As a bon voyage gift last week one of his friends gave him L. M. Nesbitt's book on Ethiopia called Hell-Hole of Creation (TIME. March 25). "This book," beamed Shooter Hanson, "whets my interest...
...Handsome, moose-tall Dean Worcester, who married a daughter of Novelist Arthur Train, had graduated from Yale and Massachusetts Institute of Technology to become an engineer for New York Telephone Co. As assistant secretary he distinguished himself at the Stock Exchange early in Depression as a crack trouble-shooter and inside man. In 1930 he was made an officer and director of New York Quotation Co. Last week the Stock Exchange governors promoted Dean Worcester, 37, from assistant secretary to the new post of executive vice president. As such he will be the No. 1 administrative officer of the Stock...
...five Gimbels who manage Gimbel Bros. Inc. (department stores) are to be thought of as a basketball team, beefy President Bernard F. Gimbel, biggest stockholder, would be captain and centre. The team's "running" forward and its nimblest basket-shooter would be Cousin Richard, 36, vice president. A Phi Beta Kappa at Yale he advertised TUTORING CLASSES DE LUXE, guaranteeing that any student who attended his five-hour lectures would pass a given course. His students paid $20 a head, lay on divans in his rooms, consumed champagne, soda pop, candies, ice cream, cigars. Richard Gimbel carried his money...
...meeting, which was an end-of-the-year party, included a number of shooting games handily won by Captain Penrod. To lend aerial atmosphere to one called "Fighting in the Clouds," the shooter was placed on a chair perched atop a table, a "joystick" in one hand, and a pistol in the other, and told to explode some wildly jouncing balloons
Washington, Feb. 12--The state department today ordered its foremost "trouble shooter," George C. Hanson to Abyssinia to report developments in the growing Itale-Abyssinian hostility...