Word: drexel
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Died. John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, 5th Baron Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign -1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World...
Luckily, he was used to quick sartorial changes. So when elegant Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., 47, last week stepped out of his five ambassadorships, one ministership and into a lieutenant colonel's uniform, he did it with neatness and dispatch. In his new job, his business will be U.S. relations with occupied European nations (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg). But his boss will be General Eisenhower instead of Cordell Hull...
Elegant Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., the world's only sextuple ambassador, turned up in Washington last week. He skated down the marble halls of the ancient State Department to see his chief, Cordell Hull, emerged 35 minutes later, debonair, gay, loquacious as always...
...Other expatriates indicted with him: Robert Best (TIME, Feb. 15), Constance Drexel, Edward Leopold Delaney, Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19, 1942), Frederick Wilhelm Kaltenbach, Douglas Chandler, Max Otto Koischwitz...
Dapper Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, 45, who used to be five Ambassadors and two Ministers (all to London-resident Governments in exile) became six Ambassadors and one Minister when the U.S. and Czecho-Slovakia upped their diplomatic relations a notch, from legations to embassies...