Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphy, a career diplomat extraordinary, was retiring because 1) he had just reached retirement age of 65; 2) after serving more than 30 of his 42 years of service abroad, he had no great interest in accepting a presidential offer as Ambassador to West Germany; and 3) he had an attractive offer to work in private industry. In accepting the resignation "with deep regret," the President wrote: "I am aware of the vast contribution you have made on behalf of all of us in your efforts to advance a just and secure peace...
Alexander himself is Morgan Guaranty's chief bird dog. He moves through a constant round of meetings, receptions and official dinners with bankers, ambassadors, corporate presidents. He is constantly on the alert for the clue that will tell him where to find a potential customer, where to make a big new loan. His door is never closed to those who want to see him. In a recent week he met with the Belgian ambassador and the finance minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, played host to several distinguished British bankers, received half a dozen officers of corresponding banks. One customer...
...leftists tell it, the U.S. is stealing atomic minerals, interfering with the coffee market, sucking out exorbitant profits, monopolizing Brazilian industry (or, on the other hand, refusing to invest in Brazil). Career Diplomat John Moors Cabot, who built a reputation in Sweden from 1954 to 1957 as an ambassador willing to speak up anywhere any time for the U.S., was appalled at such complaints when he arrived in July to be U.S. ambassador. Last week, in a speech, he ticked off 19 major U.S. contributions to Brazil's welfare and prosperity. Among them...
...effect, Ambassador Cabot asked the critics of the U.S. to inform themselves and reconsider. "Brazil could adopt a new political orientation," warned Cabot, "only at the cost of endangering her own security as well as that of the U.S." Brazil's press threw open its columns, gave Cabot's blunt talk big and generally favorable play...
Married. Kate Roosevelt, 23, granddaughter of F.D.R., daughter of California Congressman James Roosevelt and Betsy Gushing Roosevelt Whitney, adopted daughter of John Hay Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and publisher of the New York Herald Tribune; and William Haddad, 31, crusading, prizewinning New York Post reporter; in Manhattan...