Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grabbing coroners of the five boroughs which compose New York City. A few years later Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike'') Hylan slighted one of Dr. Norris' aides. Dr. Norris promptly mailed his resignation. Mayor Hylan tore it up. Last week Mayor McKee, more of a diplomat, accepted Dr. Norris' resignation and then persuaded him to withdraw...
...Elected as permanent Speaker paunchy, polite Fascist Hermann Wilhelm Goering, "the diplomat of his party." Though there are only 230 Fascist Deputies, Col. Goering was elected by a vote of 367 to 216. Famed during the War as a Commander of the late Baron von Richthofen's Flying Squadron, Speaker Goering mounted the tribune with militant jerkiness, replied with a Fascist salute to the salutes of Fascist Deputies who bounded from their chairs shouting, "Hail Hitler...
Oxonian & Cantabrigian readers may be annoyed at his pretended assumption that he finds it impossible to distinguish between the two universities, is constantly getting them mixed up. A turn-of-the-century diplomat, Author Baring says he found the diplomatic service split from top to bottom over the question "as to whether papers should be kept folded, as had been the habit in the 18th Century, or flat." When the more modern school seemed to have won out, "a certain Ambassador of the Old School was appointed . . . and had them all refolded again? the work of several months...
...suffered all his life from asthma. From a very early age he was intellectually and socially ambitious, took himself with a seriousness which only success can excuse. His poor health did not prevent his taking his degree and serving his military service. His father wanted him to be a diplomat, but he postponed the issue by dabbling at the Sorbonne. Meeting with Henri Bergson influenced his decision on a literary career...
...Judge (Attorney Johnson jailed Gangster Capone and nine other racketeers); Ernest B. Thomas of Rushville, Ind. to be a member of the Federal Farm Board (Rushville is the hometown of Republican Senate Leader Watson); Norman Armour, now Counsellor of Embassy at Paris, to be Minister to Haiti (a career diplomat, Mr. Armour diplomatically announced: "I'm as pleased to go to Haiti as I am sorry to leave Paris"). ¶ For his 58th birthday, President Hoover received: 1) a cake baked aboard the new S. S. Manhattan; 2) a cake with 58 candles baked at the White House...