Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President this year two unusually good men have been nominated. Mr. Davis has a distinguished record as a diplomat and lawyer; he is a man who may truly be termed "international". But, though a most popular figure himself, he has had the misfortune of having Charles W. Bryan as a running mate and the Democratic party as a supporter--two facts which he, as well as his friends,--knows to be unfortunate and counter-balance his personal popularity...
Engaged. The Rev. Tertius Van Dyke, 38, pastor of the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, and son of Dr. Henry Van Dyke, famed author-diplomat-clergyman, to Miss Mary Elizabeth Cannon, of New Haven. Miss Cannon taught Sunday school, supervised Bible classes in the church of the Rev. Mr. Van Dyke...
...John W. Davis is elected President of the U. S., he will probably appoint someone to be Minister to Rumania. One cannot identify that hypothetical Minister in advance, but he would have to be a very able diplomat to take up amiable relations with the Rumanian court...
Edgar Addison Bancroft, 66, born at Galesburg, Ill., now living at Chicago, is a descendant of the New England Bancrofts, including Aaron, biographer of George Washington, and George, diplomat and historian. Educated at Knox College and the Columbia University Law School, he has been counsel for the Santa Fe Railway and the International Harvester Co. In the great railway strike of 1894, he obtained the first injunction against the strikers and later helped to send Eugene V. Debs and others to jail for six months. Nevertheless, he is regarded as a liberal in labor matters. He is author of three...
...Tribunal, Ulrich, guarded by three stalwart soldiers. There was Kamenev, Acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, sitting with his beautiful wife. Side by side sat Krassikov, President of the Supreme Court; Kursky, Commissioner of Justice; Minjiniki Elyava, Head of the Trans-Caucasian Federation; Karl Redek, famed diplomat; another arch-devil, Bela Kun, quondam Red Dictator of Hungary. In the dock a small man, quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap double-breasted grey sack suit and a thin black tie. His face was reminiscent of a youthful Napoleon, but "cadaverous and drawn with deep shadows under...