Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank," undoubtedly can and will give his teacher many a pointer on diplomacy as it is practiced in explosive Tokyo. Already rated one of the best career diplomats in the U. S. Foreign Service when Herbert Hoover sent him to Japan in 1932, Ambassador Grew by general consensus has done a bang up job of pleasantly conveying unpleasant news to the Nipponese...
...managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise. Hunter Roosevelt I read young Mr Grew's Sport and Travel in the Far East instantly concluded that a man who could crawl into a cave and shoot a tiger as Joe Grew had done, must have the makings of a diplomat...
...have another?" Reporters and Ambassador made a date for another press conference. Next day those few bigwig reporters who had been invited to the garden party also received bids for their wives, just like other people. At one stroke the Ambassador had undone half the damage done by his U. S.-born wife, and set a standard for press relations which his successor, brilliant, erratic Lord Lothian, who used to be Prime Minister Lloyd George's Private Secretary Philip Henry Kerr, will have to live up to when he comes to take over the Embassy this summer...
...button factory," said middle-aged Miss McFiggins, "but that was a long time ago. My arthritis, y'know." Along with others on local relief in Rochester, Miss McFiggins last week received her semimonthly check from the city welfare department. She then did something that Reliefers had never done before. She bought a booklet of orange and blue stamps issued by the U. S. Government, thus became the first feminine guinea pig in an experiment designed by the Department of Agriculture to relieve the glut of surplus farm produce (TIME, March...
Nora Wain: "I am done entirely with patriotism...