Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remilitarizing the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). After the Vienna broadcast it was sharply announced in Rome that Germany must be invited to Brussels and must accept before Italy will even consider sitting in, and Il Duce tagged on a few more things he wants before sending an Italian diplomat even to talk about Locarno...
...veto: any reference to the gold standard in the money plank and any suggestion of a constitutional amendment to authorize State control of minimum wages. William Allen White had also to make concessions to various non-Landon members of the platform Committee. Thus with Editor White functioning as a diplomat rather than as a liberal, Landon views on the platform were largely left for presentation by such allies as Charles P. Taft (liberal younger brother of Ohio's favorite son, regular Robert A. Taft). The standpoint of Landon-liberalism was probably pressed less forcibly upon the platform committee than...
...after the War, then President of Carnegie Corporation. Only those grown very old in the service of Yale and Education were aware that James Rowland Angell was the grandson of one college president, Brown's Alexis Caswell (1868-72), and the son of an even more celebrated journalist, diplomat and pedagog, Dr. James Burrill Angell, for 38 years President of the University of Michigan...
...Christian Smuts's career were graphed it would look like a broker's nightmare. He has been a lawyer, a politician, a soldier, a rebel, a turncoat, a philosopher, a diplomat. Among his own countrymen he has touched the nadir and the zenith of popularity. During the Boer War the British pursued him with blood in their eye; in the World War they made him a general. Smuts has attracted more hatred from varying sources than any man in South Africa. But through all his ups & downs he has kept the quiet consciousness of duty done. Volume...
...Laughlin line, more prolific of heirs, has generally left company management pretty much to the Joneses. Founder James Laughlin was a good Presbyterian who served as first president of Western Theological Seminary and founded Pennsylvania College for Women. Grandson Irwin Boyle Laughlin was a career diplomat and onetime Ambassador to Spain. Philadelphia's Rev. Edward R. Laughlin is also a grandson. James Laughlin IV is the member of the Harvard Advocate board who was largely responsible for the ban placed on an issue of that magazine last autumn by Cambridge police. Great-Granddaughter Alice Denniston Laughlin is a stained...