Word: counselors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic analysis will lead to the high places of Consul General in London, in Paris, in Shanghai, or Buenos Aires. On the other hand, special talent for drafting, tact in negotiation and just estimation of political situations would be recognized by work on international conferences and the positions of Counselor of Charge d'Affaires in great capitals. From either branch the President may select Ministers and Ambassadors, and there are at present some thirty who have been so chosen...
Like President Hoover, Finland's President Relander appointed no hot-blooded youngster to head his Prohibition commission but sapient, 75-year-old Edvard Björkenheim, counselor to the Ministry of Agriculture. Ready at hand for Wickersham Björkenheim were Wet statistics released by the Government last week. During 1930 Finland, with a population of 3,600,000, convicted 11,147 men and 2,390 women of violating the Prohibition law. Police confiscated 1,052,486 litres of illegal spirits...
...president he went, told him that the U. S. would never recognize his government, told him that he must resign. At such personal encounters with Latins Mr. Whitehouse is rather good. In Paris and later at Madrid he handled successfully, as counselor of embassy, much tougher men than a No. 3 president of a third-class power...
...gentleman with naturally wavy hair and a cultivated voice (he is one of the extremely few U. S. diplomatists who have been schooled at Eton). Onetime private secretary of the late great Whitelaw Reid, he married the daughter of Mrs. Charles Beatty Alexander. He served with some eclat as Counselor of the U. S. Embassy in Paris and Madrid. In 1927, as Charge d'Affaires in Paris, he made news by setting detectives to watch over New York's playful Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. No one supposed that Diplomatist Whitehouse was overjoyed by his transfer year...
...Life Assurance Society, son of the late Henry Baldwin Hyde, Equitable's founder and onetime president; and Countess Ella Matuschka (nee Walker) of Detroit; in Varsailles, France. Witnesses: Andre Tardieu, onetime (see p. 17) Prime Minister of France, President Jean de Castel-lane of the Paris Municipal Council, .Counselor Norman Armour of the U. S. Embassy...