Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loudly had Publisher Gore boomed Franklin Roosevelt for the Presidency through his Fort Lauderdale News, his Deland Sun-News, his Daytona Beach Sun-Record. The President picked his first cousin Warren Delano Robbins as Minister to Canada, and Hugh Gibson, Ambassador to Belgium and for 25 years a career diplomat, to be Ambassador to Brazil. ¶Down the Potomac to Indian Head and back to Washington cruised President Roosevelt one balmy afternoon and evening last week. Also aboard the Sequoia were seven big-eyed girls from Manhattan's Todhunter School, guests of Mrs. Roosevelt, their onetime teacher...
Japanese bugles in China are not so loud as Japan's bugle diplomat, Yosuke Matsuoka. After he stalked out of the League of Nations' conference on Manchuria last February, he sounded off for Japan through France, Britain and the U. S. Back home, the Japanese glowed proudly at Matsuoka's Japanism. Even Occidental diplomats were impressed by the single-mindedness of this little U. S.-educated yellow man. He had yielded not an inch on Japan's claims. Last week Matsuoka arrived in Tokyo...
...British Press Sir John Cadman has still another name: the Petrol Diplomat. He cinched his title once again last week by ending amicably Britain's five-month squabble with the Persian Government over Anglo-Persian's oil leases (TIME...
...John first won the title of Petrol Diplomat as government oil adviser in the famed San Remo conference which divided between Britain and France the output from the rich Mesopotamian oil fields, earned the anger of U. S. oilmen by shutting U. S. companies...
Month ago the Petrol Diplomat reached Teheran and immediately began a series of secret conferences with the Shah. Be fore his arrival the League of Nations, through Dr. Eduard Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," had laid the groundwork for a new agreement (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week came the announcement of a preliminary agreement between Sir John and Persia's Shah: Anglo-Persian will in future pay the Persian Government 21% royalties instead of 16% and will turn over 2½% of the profits of its subsidiaries. Persia on its part will grant the com pany...