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Command Schools. But the Foreign Service careerist without a substantial private income now took hope. With the increases he could at least afford to become an ambassador or minister at some inexpensive post. Quite as important as the increases in attracting and keeping good men were other changes. Among them...
...rest of the week was the same-nothing earthshaking, but everything brisk. The President named State Department Careerist Maxwell M. Hamilton to be Minister to Finland. He saw a long list of visitors, assured a group of Democratic and Republican women that he favors the equal-rights Constitutional amendment. Now for the outing...
...Careerist. In Manhattan, Charles Reiprecht, morgue attendant by day, undertaker's assistant by night, was arrested for trying to poison his wife...
...busy week of diplomatic shuffles, the White House announced the appointments of nine U.S. envoys, five of them seasoned career men. To the Polish Government in London went suave Careerist Arthur Bliss Lane, 50, an appointment which should put Polish-Americans in a good election-year mood. To The Netherlands went solemn Stanley Hornbeck, 61, onetime chief of the State Department's Far Eastern division; to Bolivia, Walter Thurston, 48, of Colorado; to Colombia, John Cooper Wiley, U.S. Minister to Latvia and Estonia until 1941; to El Salvador, John F. Simmons, 52, who began as a U.S. consular clerk...
...Ambassador to Brazil, as U.S. envoy to Paris, with the rank of ambassador. Forthwith the French gaily opened up their big, chateau-shaped Embassy in Washington, closed since the 1942 departure of Vichyman Gaston Henri-Haye. Paris should be a hot diplomatic spot, which will be no novelty to Careerist Caffery, who has served U.S. interests abroad through six administrations. A Louisianian who studied to be a lawyer, Caffery went to work for the State Department when he was 24. He has since seen service in Stockholm, Teheran, Paris, Madrid, Athens, Berlin, Havana, Rio de Janeiro and points between...