Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tall, tweedy, reserved man with a magnificently well-kept mustache, Dean Acheson looks like the average man's idea of the typical diplomat, elegant without being stuffy. His handsome, brunette wife is an artist. They have a remodeled redbrick house in Georgetown and a 100-acre weekend farm in Sandy Spring...
...Under Secretary, and Jimmy Byrnes's key man, was Dean Gooderham Acheson, 52, who had resigned as an Assistant Secretary just three days before. He had quit because he found it hard to live the life of a diplomat on $9,000 a year, was persuaded to come back to higher responsibilities-at just $1,000 a year more...
Monty Woolley, who looks more like an old Mack Sennett diplomat than a city father, was the victim of a write-in vote of 20 friends in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. They did it without warning him, but found him willing to play it straight the rest of the way. Monty will be Mayor of the town if he can beat the present Mayor in the finals...
Would the replacement of Tory Churchill by Laborite Attlee (see FOREIGN NEWS) improve British-Soviet relations? There was room for doubt. Said a Soviet diplomat last week...
Last week the Colombian Congress selected an interim President, young (39) newsman-diplomat Alberto Lleras Camargo. For this week LÓpez meant to resign for good. He would refuse to accept another Senate refusal to accept his resignation...