Word: ambassadorship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crack British Career Diplomat, Lord Inver-chapel (formerly Sir Archibald Clark Kerr), succeeds to the U.S. ambassadorship...
...President hoped that Jesse Jones would continue to stay in the Government. He told him to drop around and see Ed Stettinius one of these days to see if there was an ambassadorship open. The letter, which began, "Dear Jesse," closed with "warm regards...
...significance. The award was made from 1924 until the war to outstanding Harvard graduates for study at Cambridge, and it has deeper importance than most scholarships. The Associated Harvard Clubs, who originated the honor in memory of Lionel De Jersey Harvard '15, descendant of John Harvard, calls it "An Ambassadorship of Goodwill...
Died. Ellen Graham Bassel Davis, 74, wife of John W. Davis, Manhattan lawyer and onetime (1924) Democratic Presidential candidate; after long illness; in Locust Valley, L.I. In London during her husband's Ambassadorship after World War I, she was judged the handsomest embassy hostess in 50 years...
Last week it appeared that Ed Flynn, who has long wanted to resign, would be eased into an ambassadorship (perhaps to Ecuador) and that Franklin Roosevelt had decided on quiet, balding Postmaster General Frank Comerford Walker to head the national committee. Franklin Roosevelt's decision would have to be formulated into a command, for neither Frank Walker nor any other Democrat wanted the job. (A Washington story had it that two men, both previously mentioned for the position, had agreed between themselves that each would attempt to persuade Franklin Roosevelt from asking the other to assume the chairmanship...