Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister to Canada the President appointed Career Diplomat Norman Armour, succeeding the late Warren Delano Robbins. Minister to Haiti since 1932, Diplomat Armour has served the U. S. for 23 years at Vienna, Paris, Tokyo, Brussels, Montevideo, The Hague, Washington and Petrograd, where in 1919 he married Princess Mvra Koudacheff...
Even when once achieved, the position of Museum Director demands many qualities other than those to be acquired in academic circles. A great deal of his time is bound to be spent in the role of a business executive. Likewise, he must be an accomplished diplomat, not to say politician. His museum exists through the support of the public and the rich patrons who usually make up his board of directors. He must, therefore, cater to these people, and with the money thus placed at his disposal, (usually with innumerable strings attached) he tries to maintain in the execution...
...council table, but retained his customary seat beside Editor Rollo Ogden. There, every noon, publisher, editors and managers meet for the day's mulling of policy. Afterward the biggest wigs adjourn to the dining room upstairs, usually with a guest who may be a Cabinet officer, Brain Truster, diplomat. In the centre of the dining room ceiling is the design of a rose which Publisher Ochs liked to point out to assure his guest that whatever he said at table was strictly sub rosa...
Cheerful, suave, U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt is too good a diplomat to say that he thinks the way to deal with Russians is to treat them like grown-up children. But in Moscow last week he gave what amounted to a children's "animal party" for grown-up Bolshevik statesmen...
...many potent wires that the Cabinet of Premier General Petko Zlateff collapsed, resigned. The Army clique was hopelessly split. Result: Little Tsar Boris found himself again the strongest man in Bulgaria. His Majesty called in a 70-year-old friend of the Royal Family, M. Andrew Tocheff, seasoned Bulgar diplomat. When he failed to win support for a Cabinet after three days, the Tsar made him Premier anyhow by decree. "This will be a transitory Cabinet," said Royalty's old Premier, "to facilitate a return to normal political conditions...