Word: bassador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no chance," said he. But even as he spoke, other Senators were swelling with alarm at the London and Paris dispatches in their morning papers. Twenty years ago, they recalled, President Wilson, the State Department and unofficial Am-bassador-at-Large Edward Mandell House had played Britain's game. Now, they suspected, President Roosevelt, the State Department and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis were ready to play that game again...
...forthcoming collapse was unavoidable. Germany had a potent threat to hold over the heads of Reserve Board Members. The Cabinet was seriously discussing the advisability of declaring a moratorium on all private debts. U. S. investments in Germany since the War total $3.000,000,000. Am- bassador Sackett stayed up all Sunday night waiting to be helpful...