Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another traveler, Florida's Governor Millard F. Caldwell, who had run into the ambassador in Detroit, volunteered a typical American appraisal. "Everyone will respect him for his earnestness and sincerity," Governor Caldwell said, but he thought Sir Oliver would be a hard man to get to know...
Just before the U.S. election, the story went, the Foreign Minister of an unnamed Latin American country was wondering about the outlook. For an informed view, he turned to the U.S. Ambassador...
...looks now as though labor will vote for Truman," the Ambassador explained, "the farmers will vote for Dewey, Negroes may vote for Wallace, and parts of the South will vote for Thurmond...
When he bought control of Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, Multi-Magnate J. Myer Schine (movie houses, hotels, real estate) thought he had a plush as well as a profitable property. It was profitable, all right: the net matched his investment of $1,600,000 in less than two years. But after Schine invited Designer Norman Bel Geddes to look the place over last summer, he changed his mind about the plushness...
Born. To Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle, 50, wartime U.S. ambassador to the European governments in exile, now an Army colonel, and third wife Margaret Atkinson Loughborough Biddle, fortyish; their first child, his second, a son; in Washington. Name: Anthony Joseph Drexel Jr. Weight...