Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned his mistake. When Hitler's ambassador, Vicco Karl von Bülow-Schwante, arrived to announce the invasion on the morning of May 10, Spaak shut him off: "No, you are not going to read this to me. I know what it is ... I am the one who is going to speak, and what I have to say is-get the hell out of here." Spaak went to France when his country fell, escaped through Spain to London, after hiding from Franco's police in the bottom of an orange-laden truck...
...Archbishop of Lyon: "This abominable dance kills virtue, and gives rein to every appetite." At an Atlanta, Ga. Bible conference, Dr. Campbell Morgan declared that the tango was a reversion to the ape. A New York doctor announced a new disease, the tango foot. In Paris, the Argentine ambassador added his censure. "The tango," said he, "is a dance peculiar to the houses of ill fame in Buenos Aires and is never cultivated at respectable gatherings...
Mining Heiress Margaret Thompson Schulze Biddle, ex-wife of ex-Ambassador Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., left Manhattan for London, leaving behind some literary mementos: dinner-partner cards which she had written herself for a farewell party for the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Her tribute to the duchess...
...wartime administrator and ambassador, ex-Businessman Harriman had dealt long and intimately with Europe's politicians and problems. He had attended almost every Big Three conference, had ad ministered lend-lease in London, served as ambassador to Russia and to Great Britain. As Secretary of Commerce, he had dealt with allocations and export licenses; as chairman of the Harriman committee (which took careful measure of the U.S. economy), he had helped fashion ERP. "He is almost the indispensable man," said Hoffman. This week the Senate approved his nomination...
...radio stations, a newspaper, and is a director of the Cincinnati Reds. A perennial delegate to Democratic conventions, he was a national committeeman from 1936 to 1944, was once lieutenant governor of Ohio, in 1940 was the state's favorite-son candidate for President. Franklin Roosevelt appointed him ambassador to Belgium and minister to Luxemburg in 1944. He and Harry Truman are old friends...