Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President has made the nation's coal miners government employees, and has told them that subsequently they cannot strike. Should all negotiations with the United Mine Workers fail, Roosevelt will have this government employee status to use as a club. But the usually good diplomat, showing signs of desperation in his losing fight with John L. Lewis, blundered when he told the miners that they cannot strike. Earlier he had acted wisely, appealing to the diggers not to strike as a patriotic duty. But by raising the legal question the President has encouraged the breeding of hostile attitudes. His statement...
...Saludos Amigos" will have a pleasant effect upon its South American audiences since there is nothing serious or heady about it. Disney, in his light-hearted manner, has achieved success where other promoters of Inter-American relations have failed. Clearly, the gentleman is a diplomat...
Wrote New York Herald Tribune Reporter Bert Andrews: "[The hearing] would have left an uninformed Australian puzzled as to whether America was trying to export Mr. Flynn as a diplomat or deport him as an undesirable." In grey suit and dazzling Charvet tie, which looked like a Dali dream, Ed Flynn denied all charges of graft and malfeasance made against him. Assistant Secretary of State G. Howland Shaw read a prepared statement calling Flynn "qualified," then deftly sidestepped all embarrassing questions. (Q: "Can you think of any poorer qualified man than Flynn?" A: "I am not in a position...
...President of the CRIMSON in 1901, who sent congratulations and best wishes for this 70th anniversary. John Cowles, newspaper publisher and vicepresident of LOOK magazine, was an editor, as was Corliss Lamont '24, well-known teacher and radical author. Roger Sherman Greene '01, former President, has been a loading diplomat in the Far East...
Former Ambassador to Japan; President of the Harvard Alumni Association; outstanding career-diplomat; under Secretary of State, of State, 1924-1927; acting chief of the Division of Western European Affairs 1918; prominently, connected with the 1919 peace treaty...