Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bong is unquestionably an excellent combat pilot. He is risking his life daily (as are millions of others). He is the American Ace of Aces. For these things let him be given all possible credit. But these facts do not make him a charming social companion, a diplomat, or a conservative flyer and driver...
When Jimmy - presumably on the strength of the $50,000 campaign contribution-was made U.S. Minister to Canada, the Cromwells' domestic relations continued to deteriorate. Said the Cromwell counsel, State Senator John E. Toolan: "She humiliated him greatly by her indifference" to the responsibilities of a diplomat's wife even though she dutifully joined him in such chores as inspecting a Canadian gold mine (see cut). Her "conduct and her carryings on" were "shameful and shocking...
Back from war-pinched Britain to prosperous Canada came R.C.A.F. Group Captain Denton Massey (cousins: Actor Raymond Massey, Canadian Diplomat Vincent Massey). In the House of Commons, Group Captain Massey took his old seat. Last week he spoke...
Painters got ready to scratch another name off a State Department door. The latest resignation: genial Laurence Duggan 38, Director of the Office of American Republic Affairs, for 14 years a career diplomat, longtime close friend of recently resigned Under Secretary Sumner Welles...
From Washington the play flashes back to Rome the day Mussolini marched in, to Berlin when Naziism still wore swaddling clothes, to Paris on the eve of the Munich pact. It shows the young diplomat Alex Hazen (Dennis King) marrying not the serious-minded girl he loves (Barbara O'Neil) but her more conventional best friend (Cornelia Otis Skinner). The women become estranged; later the other woman becomes Alex's mistress. But not till the reunion in Washington is the true nature of their roles brought to light: it was less their feeling for Alex that actuated...