Word: charg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fourth of July at the State Department, plodding Secretary Cordell Hull said that he had received a flash from the U. S. acting Chargé d'Affaires at Addis Ababa giving the gist of the Emperor's appeal but that the U. S. Government obviously could not act before the full five-page text of His Imperial Majesty's communication was received. Next afternoon President Roosevelt, having glanced at the flash, delivered what admiring Idaho Senator Pope later called "a masterpiece of diplomacy." Around 4 p. m. correspondents found the President in one of his most elated...
...totaled up $50,000 as the minimum cost to the U. S. thus far of recognizing the U. S. S. R., most of this sum being diplomats' salaries. Sick in Philadelphia was U. S. Ambassador to Russia William Christian Bullitt ($14,875), but in Moscow the wife of Chargé d'Affaires John C. Wiley ($7,310) lent her patronage, as did French Ambassador Charles Alphand (648,000 francs) to a ballet by Ulanova, the newest "Soviet Pavlova," who is an appetizing* 23-year-old. With the Soviet Pavlova danced a new "Soviet Nijinsky" named Chebukian whose Communist...
...came out in the rambling intricacy of testimony. Since Errett Lobban Cord had escaped the Committee's inquisition by going on a long yachting trip to the isles of Greece, the Committee seized as target for its questions Lucius Bass Manning, chargé d'affaires of Cord's motor, aviation and shipbuilding interests. Long ago Mr. Manning protested that it was just a happy coincidence when, the day after Mr. Cord announced acquisition of New York Shipbuilding Corp., that firm was awarded the biggest ($38,450,000) slice of the New Deal's naval contracts (TIME...
...polo which he and other junior diplomats played in the precincts of the Temple of Heaven and at poker where his winnings had to be relied on to augment his small official stipend. The day came when the State Department discovered that Henry Fletcher was also a diplomat. As chargé d'affaires at Peking in 1909, amid the rumblings that preceded the overthrow of the Empire, he proved his mettle. From then on his path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President...
...Alfred Sze (black brocaded chiffon kimono and diamond tiara), after Siam's Minister and Princess Damras (black velvet and ermine)-at the tail end of the diplomatic line-came the first representative of Russia to appear at a White House reception in 15 years: Soviet Chargé d'Affaires and Mrs. Boris E. Skvirsky (gold satin with train). Amid the bourgeois pomp they smiled, carried themselves with haughty dignity...