Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clayton & Co. is the world's No. 1 cotton broker; and short, portly Oscar Johnston, No. 1 grower, whose plantation operations in Mississippi-50,000 acres worked by 3,000 farm hands-produce 16,000 bales of cotton a year. Will Clayton is a polished internationalist, a business diplomat who is now a Deputy Loan Administrator for Jesse Jones. Oscar Johnston is rooted in the Delta, a farmer on a vast but local scale. He is the father of the National Cotton Council, a federation of growers, brokers, ginners, warehousemen and crushers which is trying to increase cotton...
...Best Diplomat...
Sirs: The American sailor is without a doubt the best diplomat the United States could dispatch to a foreign land. With his knack for mixing with people, the gob has numerous advantages over the silk-hat representative of the State Department...
Friend or Foe? The biggest unfinished span was, as always, the Soviet connection. Obviously, Russia would not particularly care to have her little friend in the Balkans pass like Rumania into German hands. One day last week an unknown young Russian diplomat, Alexander Mihailovich Alexandrov, said to have been chief of the Balkan Division of the Foreign Commissariat, turned up in Sofia as Counselor of Legation, reportedly charged with giving Boris moral support in refusing German demands. Another day Tass, the official news agency, issued a gruff statement: "If German troops really are present in Bulgaria and if the further...
There is palaver between a liberal writer and a Nazi diplomat, and the story of a refugee Jewess. There is a quarrel between a pregnant bride, eager for placid home life, and her Jewish husband who has a confused desire for some active role in Democracy's defense. At length, after what seems hours of talk, a Belgian woman, whose husband has been blinded and her child maimed by German bombs, becomes momentarily crazed and attempts to shoot the Nazi emissary-something that would never happen on Bill Winston's Pan American Clipper. The bullet wounds the young...