Word: diplomatics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department agency headed by Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn operates a barge line on the Mississippi, Warrior and Illinois Rivers to try to demonstrate to private capital the practicality of waterway transportation. For nine years the railroads have fought the barge line's competition. General Ashburn, no diplomat, has tried to placate while competing with the railroads...
Firebird (by Lajos Zelahy; Gilbert Miller, producer). Zoltan Balkanyi (Ian Keith) was a matinee idol in Buda-Pesth. He also was a devil with the ladies, some of whom did not care for his lustful attentions. One of these was Karola Lovasdy (Judith Anderson), wife of a onetime diplomat (Henry Stephenson) who owned the apartment in which the unwholesome Balkanyi lived. When the actor is discovered dead there is evidence that dark-eyed Actress Anderson is the guilty party. Her apoplectic husband comes to think so, too. Finally he and the rest of the cast are sure of it when...
Geneva newshawks called what Diplomat Davis said last week his "maiden speech." As the urbane veteran of perhaps 100 diplomatic causeries in the last ten months, Mr. Davis could afford to ignore the implication of naivete. He spoke for the President pointedly thus...
...League Council chair while Mr. Matsuoka talked, sat President Eamon de Valera of the Irish Free State. Once or twice Lord Lytton reddened as the Japanese diplomat gave the Lytton Report the courteous lie direct. With head thrown back China's Smart Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo stared at the ceiling until Mr. Matsuoka sat down and the council recessed...
...When that Florentine spendthrift Lorenzo the Magnificent held sway over Continental Europe the average diplomat thought there was nothing better in life than a successful lie. The State Department in Washington has not yet learned that there are few things worse in life than a stupid...