Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tenacious William C. Bullitt, Franklin Roosevelt's onetime ambassador to Moscow and Paris, had been sent to China by a congressional committee to check on U.S. aid to China. He applauded ECA's China mission, headed by San Francisco's ex-Mayor Roger Lapham, "for the excellent work it has done." But Bullitt was firmly convinced that U.S. economic and military aid would delay, but not prevent further Communist advances...
Secretary of Education Oscar Ivanissevich, onetime ambassador to the U.S. and a skilled surgeon, had just the man. He called on Professor Stanley D. Tylman of the University of Illinois, who had just arrived to lecture on crown and bridge processes at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Tylman was willing. Oliva Paz went along as interpreter. The examination went something like this...
With a little rudimentary research, he is able to trip up columnists who don't check their gossip. Thus when Dartton Walker asked in the Daily News, "Has Stanton Griffis, ambassador to Egypt, purchased the Brentano bookstores?" Columbine answered him in print: yes, 14 years...
Died. James Stuart ("Rawhide Jimmy") Douglas, 80, Canadian-born father of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Lewis W. Douglas, onetime Arizona mining executive and banker; in Montreal...
...meet it and how they were helped and hindered in doing so by the architecture of their homes and the demands of current fashion (Queen Elizabeth's habit of ripping her stylish, padded blouse open right down to the navel on warm days greatly shocked the French ambassador). All the elements that have influenced human clothing are touched: war, poverty, industrialization, poetry, hero worship, religion, royal mistresses...