Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of Jan. 24. . . . The consideration that you gave Walter White, by placing his picture on the front page cover and the favorable comment made on his life and work, was in every way deserved. . . . Irvin H. McDuffie, the Negro valet, is no ordinary man. He is a diplomat. If he belonged to any other race he would probably belong to the U. S. Diplomatic Corps...
...Wendell L. Wilkie is the (1 utilities executive who has been trying to arrange peace between the Administration and utilities companies, 2 American diplomat who was murdered in Syria, 3 director of the C. C. C., 4 new White House Secretary, S new president of U. S. Steel...
...Diplomat Allison had already contributed to international concord by spying that he personally accepted previous apologies made by less prominent Japanese authorities, adding, however, that the Government of the United States would, of course, make its own decisions about a matter so important. Soon thereafter Washington received from John Allison a dispassionate account of that important matter...
Carrying out his predicted shift in the U. S. diplomatic corps, President Roosevelt last week sent to the Senate his recommendations that 1) trouble-shooting Joseph Patrick* Kennedy-succeed the late Robert Worth Bingham in London, 2) Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson succeed anti-Nazi Professor William E. Dodd in Berlin. When news of these appointments leaked out (TIME, Dec. 20), the scramble for embassy chairs left one diplomat awkwardly standing, Lawyer Joseph E. Davies. He had just returned from the Soviet Union to see the President and told the press: "I'll go anywhere the boss...
...this provided a chair for Joe Davies, it took one away from Careerist Hugh Gibson, who was sent to Belgium from Brazil only a few months ago. Letting Diplomat Gibson stand for the moment, the President filled a vacant chair by appointing Norman Armour, his successful Minister to Canada, to succeed retired Hoffman Philip as Ambassador to Chile...