Word: ambassadorship
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...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...
...Mott's talents as a diplomat have made him welcome alike among Greek Catholics and Scotch Presbyterians. Presidents have tried to enlist him, but he has thrice declined diplomatic posts, once an ambassadorship, and twice the post of U.S. Minister to China. He has never let any blandishment lure him away from religious work...
...Mission to Moscow; Simon & Schuster; $3. Moscow mission looked like some super Sinclair Lewis saga of a Babbitt among the Bolsheviks. A rich, self-made corporation lawyer from Wisconsin, he ran Woodrow Wilson's Western campaign in 1912, later headed the Federal Trade Commission, in 1913 refused the Ambassadorship to Russia. Accepting the post 23 years later, he took with him his second wife, Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, who inherited $20,000,000 from her father (Postum), was used to a 54-room triplex Manhattan apartment, owned a massive steam& -square-rigged yacht, Sea Cloud, which bugged...