Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carried interviews with certain Americans, first and second-generation Japanese-among them [Isamu] Sammy Horino* who takes care of my garden. Sammy and I have had many conversations about Japanese-American relations before Dec. 7 and after. Of his patriotism I have no doubt. He is not a suave diplomat, smilingly betraying, nor is he a stiff-faced Shintoist bowing to racial superstitions. He is Sammy Horino, American-born, conditioned by the world we all know, with its faults and virtues. He might harbor the resentments mentioned, but it does not keep him from being a friendly, cooperative person...
...election unprecedented in recent Harvard alumni history, Joseph C. Grew '02, former United States Ambassador to Japan, was chosen president of the Harvard Alumni Association for the coming year. Grew, now interned in Japan, will take up the post following his release or exchange for a Japanese diplomat...
...career diplomat, the newly elected president had occupied the ticklish Nipponese post since his appointment by President Hoover in 1932. But this assignment was only the climax of a career marked by the handling of unmerous delicate situations, including management of the Berlin Embassy in 1917, and the negotiation of the American-Turko Treaty...
...Swiss Legation in Washington happened to have learned that the U.S. Government was thinking of declaring war on Hungary (and Rumania and Bulgaria). Indeed, he even happened to have got hold of a copy of a note to that effect. Dropping the note on the table, the Swiss diplomat would then hastily leave...
...possible for an extravert to be a great painter, and for a great painter to be a great success. He took every advantage of it. He was a cagey businessman, among businessmen who knew and valued good painting when they saw it. He was an apt amateur diplomat in a day when diplomacy was not quite a profession. He was a prodigious worker (average: four to five days per painting, all his life), and he ordered his life to that end. He never drank nor gambled, seldom lunged at his models. He suffered less mental anguish than many a stockbroker...