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...service. For 23 years he has been equipping himself. He began as private secretary to Ambassador Choate at the Court of St. James's. He served in Peking. He accepted demotion in order to return to Washington, to work "with the office boys of the State Department underworld." He soon became chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. President Taft, aware of his abilities, sent him back to London (where his career had begun) to the duties of Ambassador, Whitelaw Reid being in ill health. President Wilson, aware, made him Assistant Secretary of State during...
...quite evident that if any get together plans are so be undertaken by the members of the underworld and the rulers of this country the former should have means of keeping in closer touch with each other. An underground telephone service between Cambridge and Chicago, for instance might prove of great use in bringing about that coordination of criminals, which is now so sadly lacking and which stands as a stubborn obstacle in the way of unified crime. We even go so far as to indorse such a service and to offer our plans for the opening ceremonial call...
...Hello, Central, give me the Chicago Underworld, please--Yes, hello is this Chicago--; central you cut me off. Hello, hello--Chicago Underworld? What? what was that? the Chicago Underworld? Oh, the New York Journal (in high disgust). We must have got the wires mixed...
Then just as he is about to try again the underworld river, which everybody knows flows under that part of Cambridge, begins to seep through the cracks in the floor and the distinguished gathering retreats in terror...
Shanghai Gesture-Florence Reed in the Chinese underworld...