Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Career Diplomat is the phrase to remember about Nelson Trusler Johnson. Born in Washington 52 years ago, he studied at Friends School and George Washington University. He was such a whiz at Latin, Greek and German that one of his professors casually said he ought to get a language appointment in the foreign service. He liked the idea, got a list of required subjects for the diplomatic exams, borrowed some books, read without instruction, passed in a walk, and before he knew it was at the end of the world...
...three minutes ($29.75) Russian born Cleveland Oilman Abraham ("Abe") Pickus, self-appointed telephone diplomat who thinks he helps world peace by overseas calls to heads of European and Asiatic governments,* talked with Finnish Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko, warning him that Finland must cooperate with Russia or "she will have the same experience as Poland...
Into a pair of oversized Kentucky shoes, worn only twice before, a Yankee journalist stepped last week. New York-born, 42-year-old Herbert Agar, onetime diplomat, novelist, playwright, poet, critic, historian, became editor-in-chief of the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...corn dropper" on his father's small farm. Secretary of the Treasury Memminger, born in Germany, was brought up in a Charleston orphanage. Secretary of the Navy Mallory helped his mother in a Florida boardinghouse. Secretary of State Benjamin was the son of a Jewish fishmonger in London. Diplomat John Slidell was the son of a New York candlemaker...
With Benjamin belongs Diplomat John Slidell, slick, charming, Byronic intriguer at the Paris court, oldstyle boss of New Orleans. "Slidellian" was once a synonym for "underhand." (The Confederacy's luckless diplomacy in Mexico, Paris, London became known when Colonel Pickett sold the Confederacy's diplomatic correspondence for about $75,000 to the Federal Government...