Word: careers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker was saying: "War lessons should make us distrustful of too great an extension of the policy ... of educating and using career men for diplomacy. For the routine diplomatic work in peace time it may be well enough, but the psychology engendered by a peacetime career in diplomacy is often fatal to diplomatic emergencies. Career men, capable of a career, can be and now are being used in our diplomacy, but care must be taken lest the development of a right of seniority in promotion . . . does not have its dire result on the future of American diplomacy...
...need to be cautious about putting up career men, simply because they are career men . . . against the able negotiators in first authority now practically conducting the diplomatic negotiations of European countries. ... I do not have individuals in mind. But . . . any custom of appointments and promotions involving career men must never dull the sharp discretion which the appointing power should employ in selecting our best men for our most important diplomatic work...
Next day Washington fussed, buzzed. For had not Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh S. Gibson just been appointed to head the U. S. delegation to the approaching Geneva Arms conference? Is not Mr. Gibson eminently a "career man"? Both England and Japan have appointed "able negotiators of first authority" to attend the Conference. The very question discussed generally by Mr. Dawes had been discussed specifically with regard to Mr. Gibson for weeks preceding his appointment. It had been rumored that Charles Evans Hughes had been asked, had refused, to take the post...
...view of these circumstances, had not Vice President Dawes selected rather an inopportune time to debate career men v. special emissaries? This question, impertinent, found no official answer...
...cartoonists and feature writers of metropolitan newspapers enjoy a field day at the expense of the hosts of bearers of diplomas which step forth into the world. Such levity is inevitable, but it should not, and it does not, impair the delirium of the last week of a college career. It is the Seniors hour, and none should approach to mar the glory whose memory will remain ever bright...