Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make-up of the commission was almost as interesting as its 448-page report. The chairman: Physicist Karl Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The members: Joseph (Mission to Moscow) Davies, ex-Ambassador to Russia and sometime apologist for the Soviet Union; the Rev. Daniel Poling, noted Baptist minister and editor of the Christian Herald; Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric Co. and wartime vice-chairman of WPB; the Rev. Edmund Walsh, Georgetown University geopolitician; Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser and ghostwriter to Franklin Roosevelt; Dr. Harold Dodds, president of Princeton University; Truman Gibson Jr., Negro attorney...
...Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, Nicaraguan Ambassador...
...role as a U.S. ally for granted. If the chips ever went down, Britain could scarcely play any other role. And there was still a vast reservoir of British good will toward the U.S.-as a British miner's wife illustrated last week by soundly bussing U.S. Ambassador Douglas.* Nevertheless, Britain was a resentful and reluctant ally...
Died. Williamson S. Howell Jr., 54, wealthy Texas attorney-businessman; of a heart attack half an hour before his scheduled departure for his new post as U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay:* in Bryan...
...second time in three months a new U.S. ambassador has died on the day he was to leave for his new post: in February, North Carolina's Oliver Max Gardner was stricken in Manhattan the day he was to sail for the Court of St. James...