Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presumption that noncareer nominees are qualified. The burden on noncareer people is to prove to the committee that they are qualified." Arkansas' Fulbright was talking to young (33) Ogden Rogers Reid, former publisher of the New York Herald Tribune, who has been nominated by President Eisenhower as U.S. Ambassador to Israel. Fulbright had every intention of using "Brownie" Reid to prove his argument that noncareer ambassadorial nominees must show that they have "some special unusual qualities" to justify confirmation. He notably failed...
Finished with his excursion into Brownie's schooldays, Fulbright began probing into Reid's business affairs-and those of the Herald Tribune, owned for years by the Reid family, but recently taken over by U.S. Ambassador to Britain John Hay Whitney. Did Reid think he had "worked" his way up to his position as publisher? Well, he had worked on general assignment for a year, been responsible for the Trib's European edition for six years. Had not the paper lost $800,000 last year? Reid admitted it was "in the red." Asked Fulbright sarcastically: "In view...
...help get the ball rolling, the CRIMSON has a flock of candidates who must be placed in the "sure thing" category. Francis Russell, Ambassador to New Zealand, will be in Cambridge on June 11 and is regarded as practically a certain choice for an honorary. Likewise, J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, one of the foremost scholars in the country, will probably receive a degree...
...Secretary; Presidential Assistant (for National Security) Gordon Gray, onetime Army Secretary; retired General Alfred Gruenther, Eisenhower's SHAPE Chief of Staff, who might be loath to give up the prestige, house, $30,000 salary and perquisites that go with his job of president of the American Red Cross; Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, who would be difficult to replace...
...newsmen had finished their polite, respectful questions, and with punctilious protocol one of the visiting Shah's aides closed the press conference at the Iranian ambassador's house in London: "Thank you very much, Your Majesty...