Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invited to the series of meetings on the "University and Its World Possibilities" to report on the activities of the Council International Committee, Heller joins at the conference such men as poet Archibald MacLeish, Dean Roscoe Pound, and Henri Bonnet, French Ambassador to the United States...
...Treasury in whom businessmen had full confidence. Almost everybody could find something to like about this hearty "liberal conservative" with the homespun manner and the gilt-edged bank account. And almost everybody wanted to give him a farewell party before he left for London and his new job as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Wilfrid Eady, who succeeded Lord Keynes as traveling ambassador for the British Treasury, and Cameron Cobbold, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, had got as far as India. They had come to ask how much of a ?1,250,000,000 debt could be written off, and what the terms for the rest would be. On the way home they will stop at Bagdad, where more than ?100,000,000 is due Iraq; then on to Cairo to talk about the ?450,000,000 owing to Egyptians. The two may also visit Palestine, where the debt already tops...
Bierut's seven-year term as President began with much ceremony, flecked with U.S. and British icicles. Britain's Ambassador Victor Cavendish-Bentinck and U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane stayed away from the Parliament's opening, a mild underscoring of their Governments' protests that it was unfairly elected.* To answer that charge, Poland's Government announced that 68 of its Electoral Commission members and guard had been killed "by the underground" during the election campaign. Mikolajczyk had said that 18 of his party's workers had been killed or died of "mistreatment...
Died. Oliver Max Gardner, 64, newly appointed Ambassador to the Court of St. James'5; onetime governor of North Carolina, onetime Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury; of thrombosis; on the day he was to have sailed for England to begin his new job; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...