Word: ambassadorship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When General Mark Clark announced that he was no longer in the field for an ambassadorship to the Vatican, much of the wind that followed Truman's original statement on the question of representation at the Holy See blew itself out. Although the issue is still sufficient to produce a few decibals from Texas, it has faded from the halls of Congress, from the newspapers, and even from many Protestant pulpits. Now that the furor has subsided, it is possible to detect a few sane arguments here and there...
Last week Protestant protests continued to rise across the land. Letters and telegrams to the White House last week were running 6 to 1 against the nomination. One Protestant leader revealed that Truman had offered him the ambassadorship last January. "I declined and advised against it," said Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, brother of Senator Robert A. Taft and a board member of the National Council of Churches...
...took the oath, and flatly denied that Crane had ever given him any money, let alone $10,000 in a red manila envelope. Despite his denial, his reputation had been badly smudged. Washington hummed with rumors that he would presently be "nudged" into doing the gentlemanly thing-resigning his ambassadorship as gracefully as possible...
Democratic Deals. Though the Hanley letter had been a windfall, the Democrats' moral outrage over political deals was something new considering their own maneuverings. Boss Ed Flynn, anxious to get a big New York City vote, had arranged a nice ambassadorship for Mayor William O'Dwyer, timed just right to require a Nov. 7 New York City election for his successor. And then when Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, a docile Tammanyite, had refused to get out of the way for Boss Flynn's candidate (Justice Ferdinand Pecora), Impellitteri had been offered a 14-year judgeship...
...Franklin Roosevelt offered him the ambassadorship to Belgium. "What could be more interesting," Roosevelt said to him, "than the carrejour [crossroads] of Europe in the closing days of the war?" Margaret Sawyer had died in 1937 after bearing him five children. In 1942 Charles Sawyer had married again: his bride was handsome Countess Elizabeth de Veyrac, nee Lippelman, a neighbor and onetime professional dancer. He took her off to Belgium. He escaped machine-gunning by a Nazi flyer on New Year's Eve, 1944, made friends among the Belgians by his understanding and sympathy, and returned...