The James Logan Courier

By Mark Seibel
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Note to Tatiana Gfoeller, U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan: If you ever tire of the Foreign Service — or get drummed out — there may be a reporting job for you.

Gfoeller, a career diplomat who speaks six languages — seven, if you count English — is the author of a WikiLeak'd diplomatic cable about Britain's Prince Andrew that made headlines in London because she said the conversation at a brunch the prince shared with diplomats in Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital, two years ago "verged on the rude."

Among the prince's targets, Gfoeller reported, were the French, whose penchant for corruption, in the prince's opinion, was nearly as great as the Kyrgyz government's, and the Americans, whose ignorance of geography placed them in a category definitely inferior to his own countrymen.

From wikipedia:
John Wesley Dobbs (December 3, 1882 - August 21, 1961) was considered the unofficial 'mayor' of Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, GA, and the African-American counterpart to Mayor William B. Hartsfield.

Dobbs was educated at Atlanta Baptist College - which later became Morehouse College. After completing college, Dobbs passed a civil service exam and became a railway mail clerk in 1903. He was a great familyman for his wife and six daughters. With educational background and his job at the postal service, he was a member of Atlanta's rising African-American middle class. All of Dobbs' daughters graduated from Spelman College and one daughter, Mattiwilda Dobbs, became a notable opera singer.

Read a December 2, 1939 radio address by John Wesley Dobbs, free from the Library of Congress.