Word: ambassadorship
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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...
...been entered by Farouk's agents and that all letters and pictures of Narriman have been stolen; he has been followed by secret police. Nobody tried to put him in the forefront of a battle, but he says that he was offered the next worst thing: the ambassadorship to Russia. When he refused, he was told to get back to his job at Lake Success as fast as he could...
...campaign, Curley led a pace that that would have buried two men; he covered 23 states and made 141 speeches. For all this, Roosevelt promised him a cabinet position--probably Secretary of the Navy. However, when the tome came for the appointments Roosevelt changed his mind, offering Curley the ambassadorship to Rome in place of the cabinet job. Once more, Curley accepted but Roosevelt backed down; finally, the President asked Curley if he would accept the position of ambassador to Poland. Apparently,, Roosevelt was not going to make the mistake Curley had made as governor and appoint pure politicians...
Throughout India there is widespread administrative corruption and bumbling, especially in the provinces. Nepotism, an ancient Oriental custom, reaches everywhere ; as an example in the highest place, the Prime Minister's critics point to the elevation of his elder sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, first to the ambassadorship in Moscow, then in Washington...