Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official precedence list of Washington down to the National Screw Thread Commission, Mr. Robbins is also U. S. Minister to El Salvador. A Harvard graduate, a member of New York's Knickerbocker Club and Washington's Metropolitan, he has had long service as a U. S. career diplomat in Berlin, Paris, Mexico City...
Last week the State Department came to his defense by declaring that New York style arbiters are behind the times. The well-dressed U. S. diplomat had, said the State Department, abandoned spats two years ago. Industrious U. S. correspondents abroad joined the controversy by cabling despatches to the effect that in London nowadays spats are being worn only at garden parties and weddings, but that upturned trousers are distinctly bad form with a morning coat; that gloves should be carried, though not worn; that a stick is optional...
...President Hoover appointed Hoffman Phillip, career diplomat, onetime Minister to Persia, to be Minister to Norway. Selected last week as Minister to Egypt was William M. Jardine. onetime (1925-29) Secretary of Agriculture...
Last week the President of the U. S. appointed a Minister to Haiti. He is Dana Gardner Munro, 38, studious son of that scholarly father, Princeton's Professor of Medieval History, Dr. Dana Carleton Munro. Young Minister Munro is an engaging, gentle diplomat, chief of the Department of State's Division of Latin-American Affairs, author of an authoritative book on Central America...
Juan Read, octogenarian Dominican Republic lumber tycoon, retired diplomat, left his Santo Domingo home hurriedly for treatment in the famed U. S. Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn. Entraining at Manhattan, he rode as far as Rochester, N. Y., where, hearing the station called, he de-trained in a rush, asked through an interpreter to be directed to the Mayo Clinic, discovered he was in the wrong Rochester (there are 16 in the U. S.). Since delay might prove disastrous, Octogenarian Read chartered a plane to Baltimore, was shortly under the care of famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young of the Brady...