Word: ambassadorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Derby, to marry a pretty woman and to be Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He never won the Derby, gave up trying years ago. His fourth wife, Polly, is blonde and pretty, and while Lisbon is not London, it's still an ambassadorship...
...California's William Knowland were not really happy about the nomination. Nevada's crusty Democrat, Pat McCarran, joined the GOP opposition; Bohlen's link with Yalta, he said, is "enough for me." Ohio's Robert Taft, in his role of Republican pacifier, thought the Moscow ambassadorship not important enough for a big intraparty battle. "Our Russian ambassador can't do anything. He is in a box at Moscow. All he can do is observe and report. He will not influence policy materially...
Last Thursday, the President removed the Ambassadorship from domestic entanglements by recommending a capable, career diplomat, George V. Allen, for the post. But if the new Ambassador wishes to stop the recent dwindling of confidence in the U.S., he should intensify, not change, our present policy towards India...
...Dwyer refused to return to New York to answer grand-jury questions about his administration. There were also romantic rumors linking Sloan, some 25 years her husband's junior, to Millionaire Socialite Fred Weicker of the Squibb drug family. The week after O'Dwyer resigned his ambassadorship, Sloan moved out to live with a friend. Last week the Catholic Archbishop of Mexico approved the temporary separation "while a careful study is being made in regard to definitive canonical separation...
Your editorial of January 19 brings up the point that the argument over the ambassadorship to the Vatican has not blown itself out but is just waiting for another appointment by President Truman to replace General Mark Clark to resume its force...