Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profits out of war. U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery obligingly arranged an interview at the Presidential Palace. As everyone expected, President Mendieta politely pointed out that nothing could be done until his provisional Government was replaced by an elected one. And after the interview Senator Nye made an awkward effort to appease Cuban feeling, declaring: "We made no demands for payment nor was there any peremptory tone in our conference with Mendieta. . . . Cuba is not the only nation that needs to be spanked for not meeting its foreign obligations...
...Hampshire's young (46) Governor John Gilbert (''Gil") Winant had been born of rich parents in New York City, educated at swank St. Paul's and Princeton. But he looked like a young Abraham Lincoln - gaunt, awkward frame, unruly hair, deep-set eyes - and like Lincoln he loved the common people. He was a liberal, an idealist, a student of government and sociology, a stanch friend of Labor. On the platform, however, the only man in 100 years to be elected Governor of New Hampshire three times proved to be a halting, colorless speaker who, unlike...
...shorts, he is celebrated off the court for writing mediocre poetry and novels, speaking five languages, and teasing his 4 ft.-11 in. wife by putting her on a closet shelf from which she is too small to clamber down. Neither his domestic eccentricities nor his tennis technique - awkward but effective volleying, a serve with a pronounced top spin - seem adequate grounds for his reaching the finals unless he catches one or more opponents...
...really awkward matter was how to dress up China's current economic and political situation so as to appeal favorably to Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. Before leaving Nanking unctuous Dr. Kung made the sweeping claim that he has "freed Chinese farmers from 4,100 items of extortionate and illegal tax levies" since he became Finance Minister. As the brothers-in-law got busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo...
...This is a temporary arrangement-one that I think may last," comfortably observed Mr. Baldwin. "Of course it would be awkward if they should have serious differences of opinion since they are equal members of the Cabinet. Time alone will show whether what is an experiment will succeed. If it fails, I shall have to try something else...