Word: bullitts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Christian Bullitt, elegant ex-Ambassador to France, now candidate for mayor of Philadelphia, got into trouble with the city's tax receiver about the city's tax on wages. The dapper diplomat was charged with not filing his returns for 1940, '41 and '42 until last mont, when he reported his three years' wages as 33,535.14 and paid a tax of $108.94. The tax man had wanted to hear more about the ambassadorial expenses for which Bullitt had claimed deductions, but had been reminded that all the embassy records were destroyed when...
...entrusting him with it, the President has stuck loyally to Hull as the chief, but has consistently by passed and circumvented him for ten years, using other men in and around the Department for special diplomatic chores. Examples: Raymond Moley, Brigadier General Patrick J. Hurley, William C. Bullitt, to mention only...
...pated William Christian Bullitt last week tossed his top hat in the political ring. The candidacy: Democratic, for Mayor of Philadelphia, at the election this...
What Bill Bullitt would do among Philadelphia political muggs, how he would grapple with the sewer problem, the noisome water-such topics were much mooted by Philadelphians last week. For Bullitt is a patrician and a reformer. His family tree is ornamented by the father of George Washington, the sister of Patrick Henry, Pocahontas herself. His greatgrandfather and grandfather are civic statues...
...wealth and charm made his Parisian table a favorite of two continents. Bullitt thought nothing of throwing a party for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (490 bottles of choice champagne), or embellishing his vast Moscow house with cockerels and baby bears borrowed from the zoo. As the first U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Bullitt was the darling of Moscow, until the mutual love affair turned to mutual coolness. He made a decorative but somewhat indiscreet U.S. Ambassador to France...