Word: american
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Added to the indignity of insufficient credit, the American minister abroad sees hurled at him the insult of party domination and political interference. It has come about that nearly every overturn at Washington must be followed by the recall or resignation of the greater part of our Ambassadors. Statistics have been compiled showing that, with one exception, none of the diplomatic representatives from this country to important posts in Europe at the outbreak of the war had had the slightest diplomatic experience previous to their appointments. In sharp contrast to this state of affairs, the consuls and ministers from Great...
Feeling that in the past this country has neglected this most important branch of the Government, and that improvement is necessary to bring the service into accord with the dignity of our position in international affairs, the American Manufacturers' Export Association recently passed a resolution urging upon Congress the necessity for reorganization in our consular service. Not the least important among the provisions in the resolution is one calling for the establishment upon a sounder basis of the junior service and a general increase in salaries, to attract to a diplomatic career University-trained men of the highest type...
After years of "shirtsleeve diplomacy" and ambassadorial mediocrity, such improvements as are indicated by the exporters must make a strong appeal to the reason of every college man and every American who holds at heart the prestige of his country among the nations of the world...
...calendar which would give this country "equal months," or months exactly four weeks in length has been proposed by the American Calendar Association, and a bill to that effect introduced in Congress. This simplified form has been approved by many authorities and, according to the plans of its inventors, it could be adopted on Sunday, the first day of the year 1922, without causing any noticeable inconvenience...
...28th annual meeting of the American Psychological Association will take place at the. University on December 29, 30 and 31. All of the sessions will be held in Emerson Hall, while the annual dinner and smoker will take place in the Union Tuesday, the second day of the convention. The Boston headquarters of the Association will be the Hotel Bellevue, and arrangements have been made to accommodate the men in the Freshman dormitories, while the women will be housed at Radcliffe College...