Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-two-year-old Kennedy represents the eleventh Massachusetts district in the lower house of Congress where he serves on the House Committee for Education and Labor. The son of Joseph P. Kennedy '12, former Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission and one-time ambassador to England, the Representative covered the victorious campaign and election of the Labor Party in England for the International News Service...
...insular Bavaria speaks most clownishly through the separatist Bayernpartei. Its leader, squat, jowly Josef Baumgartner, sums up his creed: "Every German state should be given veto power like that in the U.N." One C.S.U. leader has remarked: "A separatist's happiest dream is somebody to be named Bavarian ambassador in Bern, but the truth is none of them has brains enough to be a vice consul in Venezuela...
Pravda worked out one of its fine diplomatic distinctions. It called Old Soldier Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. ambassador to Moscow, a "professional spy." On the other hand, ECAmbassador W. Averell Harriman, who once had Smith's job, was merely a "spy by avocation...
...World Affairs (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). First of an eight-week series. Subject: the North Atlantic pact. Speakers include Philip C. Jessup, U.S. ambassador-at-large...
...girl, Eliza Doolittle, and then pass her off as English nobility. For months he drills, cudgels, and bullies her, until "'Enry 'Iggins" becomes "Henry Higgins," and the Bunsen flame in front of Eliza's mouth flickers visibly with every "h." Finally comes the great test, and sweeping a starchy Ambassador's Ball, Eliza waltzes with princes, chats with royalty, and convinces one of the Professor's colleagues that her accent is Hungarian. Afterwards, Eliza accuses Professor Higgins of using her merely for an experiment, and tries to go back to selling flowers in Covent Garden...