Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finish! Finish!" Dramatically, two days later, the Tokyo government was interpellated on Count Uchida's speech by Deputy Hitoshi Ashida. a seasoned diplomat and often spokesman on foreign affairs for the Seiyukai Party, largest in the Diet...
...Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard sent to friends 500 copies of his "Connotary." a compilation of "definitions not found in dictionaries, collected from the sayings of the wise and the otherwise." Samples: Alimony, a fine levied on a man guilty of matrimony. Horse Sense, just stable thinking. Diplomat, a man who remembers a woman's birthday and forgets...
This week Democrat Davis called on Governor Roosevelt, told him what was what abroad. If anyone could possibly restore harmony between the 31st and 32nd Presidents, it was Diplomat Davis. C. Last week President Hoover went holidaying over Christmas and New Year's. Sunshine and blue skies met him when he detrained at Savannah. His guests: Supreme Court Justice Stone, Vermont's Senator Austin, Political Pundit Mark Sullivan and the ubiquitous Dr. Boone and Detective-Secretary Richey. Aboard the Sequoia, Department of Commerce inspection boat, and surrounded by a small flotilla carrying newshawks and bodyguards, the President...
...last week was Norman Hezekiah Davis, a grey-haired, drawling Tennessee Democrat. On an allowance of $6 per day from his Government (and spending five times that much out of his own pocket), Mr. Davis was covering more ground more effectively than a full-fledged delegation of plenipotentiaries. A diplomat who had earned his spurs under Woodrow Wilson, he was picked by President Hoover as a U. S. delegate to the League of Nations' General Disarmament Conference which opened last February at Geneva. When talk was loud and hopes high, Delegate Davis was obscured by other U. S. representatives...
...repeatedly confirmed by the U. S. State Department, is: "I have no authority to discuss debts." But in present-day diplomacy, which Congress has told President Hoover he must continue to use on the Debts, lack of authority can be a great asset, a key to confidence. If a diplomat says Yes he means Maybe. If he says No he is no diplomat. A diplomat without authority can mean Yes without committing anyone to anything, No without offending anyone, yet his answer may open the way to further understanding and help set the stage for negotiators in whom authority...