Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover's decree 79 foreign cities last week found themselves officially designated as unhealthy places. Effect of the Hoover order: a U. S. diplomat or consul who serves one year in any of 79 "pest holes'' gets credit for 18 months toward his retirement. World travelers were not surprised to find on the list such notoriously uncomfortable communities as Aden, Arabia; Canton, China; Baghdad, Iraq; Dakar, Senegal; Guayaquil, Ecuador; Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Monrovia, Liberia and a host of Central American cities. What they found hard to understand, though, was the stamp of unhealthiness the Government...
...this most interesting of books. It is an account of four adventurers in a South American jungle, written in a style that makes it one of those volumes which, once begun, can only be stopped with the last page. An English cinematographer, a Russian tiger-hunter, a Bolivian diplomat, and an Irish writer penetrate a jungle which had been undisturbed for over 300 years since a Spanish explorer first traversed...
Back in Moscow, able Max became assistant to the great George Tchitcherin, a former noble and Tsarist diplomat!' who was Soviet Foreign Commissar from 1920 onward for ten years, gradually growing sicker, turning over more & more of his cares to Max, who became Foreign Commissar last year...
Somehow the doughty diplomat staggered across the street to Achilles Orphanos' delicatessen store where the alarm was sounded. An ambulance carried the chief representative in the U. S. of the Government of Salvador to the Emergency Hospital where 27 stitches were taken in his head. X-rays showed a fractured skull...
With all its past surplusses and vaunted wealth the United States has dealt niggardly with its younger diplomats and almost not at all with the graduates of its foreign service who have not ample personal means. Many young men in the consular service have been forced to withdraw from government employ because the salaries granted them were insufficient to insure even the necessities of a life conforming with the standards of living and entertainment expected of representatives of the United States, Because of the impossibility of supporting a suitable establishment, as advances in position brought added social responsibility and emoluments...