Word: ambassadored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambassador has contrived such varied aids to modern life as self-winding watches, shock absorbers and mine-detecting devices; but his greatest love is the theater. Leaning back behind his cluttered desk in Manhattan this week, he spoke enthusiastically of his longtime friendship with impresarios Morris Gest and David Belasco...
...before the deadline Chanis still insisted that he would never quit, and called on his little guard to defend him. But by then the situation was hopeless, and the foreign diplomatic corps intervened to avert bloodshed. Just before 2 o'clock a committee of ten diplomats, including U.S. Ambassador Monnett B. Davis, arrived at the police station to ask for a ten-minute extension. They telephoned the palace, where Chanis was now ready to compromise: he would resign if Remón would...
...newest U.S. envoy to Latin America is urbane, white-haired Irving Florman, 53, a New York inventor and manufacturer, whose appointment as ambassador to Bolivia was announced in Washington last week by President Truman...
...Boss. "Beedle," Ike Eisenhower's chief of staff during the war, went to Moscow as ambassador in March 1946, came home this year (and became commander of the U.S. First Army). In his account of his day-to-day life in Moscow, he gives the U.S. people a hard look through shrewd, unstarry Hoosier eyes at Joseph Stalin and the men in the Politburo...
...Lima last week two ministers, three charges d'affaires, and the ambassadors of Brazil, Spain, France, Ecuador, Colombia and Great Britain had met in solemn conclave. Before the dark backdrop of the tiny Association of Amateur Artists theater, dapper, grey-haired Brazilian Ambassador Luis Pereira Ferreira de Faro announced to a hushed audience the result of their deliberations. The diplomats, aided by local intellectuals and journalists, had selected luscious Peruvian Ana Maria Alvarez Calderon as Beauty Queen of All the Americas...