Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bespectacled young diplomat by the name of Samuel Walter Washington from West Virginia watched with concern the Brazilian revolution swirl about his head...
...strength of friendships made in the U. S. Foreign Service became evident last week when Tariff Commission Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, onetime career diplomat who in 22 years rose to be Ambassador to Italy, made Leland Harrison, career diplomat who lately ended 22 years service by resigning as Minister to Uruguay, chief of the Commission's international relations division...
...tariff lesson very well. He had been able to find and appoint only five of his six tariff commissioners. They were: Republicans Henry Prather Fletcher (chairman), Edgar Bernard Brossard, John Lee Coulter; Democrats Thomas Walker Page and Alfred Pearce Dennis. Chairman Fletcher was a longtime diplomat with no special tariff training. Commissioner Brossard, a carry-over from the old Commission, was accused of being Senator Reed Smoot's "beet sugar" representative in tariff matters...
...Pennsylvanian by birth (1873) and residence, Chairman Fletcher is a diplomat of 27 years' able foreign service. As a career man, he rose to be U. S. Ambassador to Chile (1914), Mexico (1916-20), Belgium (1922-24), Italy (1924-29), served as Assistant Secretary of State (1921-22) in charge of economic matters. The commercial aspects of international relations especially in Latin America have had much of his time and attention. He resigned as Ambassador at Rome last year, disappointed, some said, because the Hoover Administration had apparently neglected...
...Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, was the present Lord Salisbury's father. Orator, diplomat, moderate Tory, he was thrice Prime Minister of Great Britain...