Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert P. Skinner of Massillon, Ohio, to be Ambassador to Turkey. A career diplomat, Ambassador Skinner got his first appointment from President McKinley. In 1903 he established diplomatic relations with Abyssinia by riding into Addis Ababa on a white...
Died. Thomas James O'Brien, 90, lawyer, diplomat, onetime (1907-11) Ambassador to Japan, onetime (1911-13) Ambassador to Italy; after long illness; in Grand Rapids, Mich. He it was who shaped the gentlemen's agreement between the U. S. and Japan preventing the influx of Oriental labor into Jap-fearing California...
...crude effort to improve world opinion Chancellor Hitler last week sent out two "goodwill" envoys. To Britain young Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, who bears the curious title of Chief of the Foreign Politics Division of the Nazi Party. To Scandinavia one Alexander Bogs. Neither was a trained diplomat, both were more used to roaring at Brownshirt crowds than dealing with urbane, stable governments. If Chancellor Hitler was unskilled in the choice of his envoys, he was even more unfortunate in choosing the time for sending them...
...Dave Hennen Morris, New York socialite lawyer, to be Ambassador to Belgium-; Sam Gilbert Bratton, Senator from New Mexico, to be a U. S. Circuit Judge after adjournment of Congress; Oscar L. Chapman, Colorado lawyer, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior; Alexander Wilbourne Weddell of Virginia, former career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Argentina. ¶ Few reports have excited Washington so much as last week's to the effect that President Roosevelt might attend the London Economic Conference next month. The White House secretariat pooh-poohed the story, and the President discouraged it by reciting his summer plans...
Preliminary agreement on a new concession to supplant the disputed D'Arcy oil leases of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd. was reached three weeks ago (TIME, May 1). Last week came the final agreement and publication of the terms. Well satisfied, Britain's "Petrol Diplomat," tall, professorial Chairman Sir John Cadman of Anglo-Persian, slipped a copy of the new agreement in his pocket, packed his grips and flew from Beirut to Marseilles, after months of bickering, threatening, appeals to the League of Nations, the new-agreement provides: 1) The period of the concession is 60 years from...