Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana, nine days before, Governor McNutt signed the original "anti-heart balm" bill which Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson introduced in the State Legislature last January (TIME, Feb. 18). Only woman member of the legislature, mother of two and daughter-in-law of Author-Diplomat Meredith Nicholson, she said: "It looks like I've become the standard bearer of a crusade to make the world safe...
This sort of thing went on for eight hours, two being luncheon, with Vegetarian Hitler giving the interpreters no chance to eat as he shook before the John Bulls what one diplomat called afterward "the expanse of Europe embroidered like a German tapestry...
...dying clangor of Cuba's smashed revolution last week arose a cheerful springtime chirping from U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery. "Not only has the sugar industry picked up," said this fashionable career diplomat, "but the seasonal fruit and vegetable industry has shown remarkable improvement." Imports from the U. S. for the last quarter of 1934 were up 127%; customs collections for approximately the same period, up 50%; Havana bank clearings, up $60,000,000. All this, however, was just such "imperialistic optimism" as Cuban radicals expect from a U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. Much more remarkable was the fact...
...haired, black-toothed man in morning coat and badly-adjusted tie motored last week to the White House Executive Offices. Though he looked like a Mexican bandit, he was in fact Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera, soldier, surgeon, poet, linguist, bon vivant, art collector, idol of Geneva newshawks, statesman and diplomat. Inside the office he found President Roosevelt smilingly erect, heard the State Department's sleek Chief of Protocol James Clement ("Jimmy") Dunn intone: "The Mexican Ambassador...
...literature- even they felt an unwonted thrill. For the majority of the Court who appear in society the six weeks were a succession of thrills, the result of conspicuous reticence. Newshawks prying for details gathered many tales. At a reception Justice Roberts was introduced to a young British diplomat who did not catch his name. "This gold matter is exciting," said the Britisher. "I'm sure your High Court would not dare to throw the country into confusion." Said Justice Roberts with all dignity: "Young man, do not try to intimidate the Court...