Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...George Hanson was not to be long out of a job. Last week, while home on leave in Bridgeport, he was assigned as Consul General and Charge d'Affaires to be the ranking U. S. diplomat in Addis-Ababa, capital of Abyssinia. Informed observers interpreted the assignment not as a reward to George Hanson but as assurance that the State Department was deeply concerned with the promise of trouble between Italy and Abyssinia (see p. 18), wanted one of its best hands on deck...
...balloon-jowled professor, Raymond Moley, and a handsome but obscure young doctor (Ph. D.), Rexford Guy Tugwell. There also was a man with some reputation in business circles, the president of American Car & Foundry Co., Mr. William Woodin. One adviser whom the public might have recognized was Diplomat Norman Hezekiah Davis. The other member of the party was Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, U. S. N., retired...
...firmly convinced," firmly declared Mrs. Roberta West Nicholson, daughter-in-law of Author-Diplomat Meredith Nicholson, "that most actions for breach of promise and seduction have extortion as their chief motive. Surely a suit to recover money as damages for the broken romance cannot soothe a woman if love was genuine...
...socialistic education in Mexico by openly commending recent speeches made by the President of Mexico favoring a socialistic State. Mr. Daniels personally is a very charming man. He possesses real gifts as a journalist and a politician, but the situation south of the Rio Grande calls for a genuine diplomat of the highest order, and unfortunately Mr. Daniels is not that. Socialism, the restriction of a free press, the squashing of class rights are not subjects upon which any ambassador representing the American Government should utter public comment, whether laudatory or otherwise. He is there to promote an amiable friendship...
...Child, who afterwards gained prominence as an author a diplomat and a roving investigator for President Roosevelt, had a brilliant undergraduate record as ivy orator, member of the football team, and the Lampoon, and President of the Advocate. He married four times between 1916 and 1921. His second wife is Maude Parker, the anchoress...