Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington to some tangible decisions. Vice Admiral Forrest Sherman, one of the top U.S. strategists, last week was named to command the Navy's Mediterranean force, which began training exercises off southwestern Greece. The State Department seriously considered shifting Walter Bedell Smith from his job as Ambassador to Moscow to take overall charge of U.S. political, economic and military interests in the eastern Mediterranean area. The Navy announced that it was sending four modern submarines to Turkey. A thousand Marines sailed for the Mediterranean aboard the Navy's Montague and Bexar, both equipped for landing operations. The Marines...
...hardly begun before it caused a railroad wreck. The second section of the Missouri Pacific Railroad's Missourian crashed into the rear of the first section, which was running slowly in heavy snow near Syracuse, Mo. Fourteen people were killed, among them Alexander Wilbourne Weddell, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and Spain, and his wife. Forty-four were injured...
Britain's Ambassador Sir Maurice Peterson kept wires to Whitehall humming with reports of a "chaotic state of affairs."* But speculators perked up. In a not-so-fabulous fable, Leningrad's Pravda told of one speculator whom it called Evlampy Khapuga ("Grabber...
...everything from Greek legends (Antigone) to steam engines (Pacific 231) and sports (Rugby). Then he bit off a chunk that many a musical better-Verdi, Gounod and Tchaikovsky, among others-had broken a tooth on. He began work on an oratorio on Joan of Arc. French Poet (and onetime Ambassador to the U.S.) Paul Claudel provided a mystical, introspective text...
Last week the dead G.I.s got a living memorial. Ex-U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Hugh Gibson and a platoon of big names (Herbert Hoover, Jim Farley, General Omar Bradley, Philip Murray, Louella Parsons) began raising $2,000,000 to help rebuild the University of Nijmegen in honor of the 82nd...