Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others do his dirty work. He was the biggest frog in his puddle until a bigger, ruggeder individual-spare, pale-eyed, nonfictional John D. Rockefeller-splashed down beside him. Mr. Rockefeller wanted Mr. Larkins' refineries. "The Standard Oil Company has been called a combination," said Rockefeller's envoy. "We prefer the word alliance. We have been accused of monopoly, but a better term is unity." After a price war, Banker Larkins saw the point...
Three weeks ago rambunctious Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina introduced a resolution to send William Griffin abroad as a special envoy to remind European nations of their debts. Nobody paid much attention. Fortnight ago Congressman Chauncey W. Reed of Illinois introduced a concurrent resolution in the House. Washington wondered what it was all about, why a pressagent was needed to report William Griffin's progress. Last week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington...
Diplomacy. Forty nations sent diplomatic missions to the coronation, including the U. S., represented by Ambassador to England Joseph Patrick Kennedy. Germany, however, sent no envoy. What were to be the relations between the Third Reich and the Holy See, was the biggest question of Pius XII's first week of rule...
Mexico City with a blare of publicity, President Cardenas was equally ostentatious by his absence - he was off in the provinces making speeches praising the expropriation policy. For six days Envoy Richberg cooled his heels, diplomatically saying little and not denying reports that he would propose a compromise whereby the companies would operate the wells for the Mexican Government. Last week this bit of Mexican "mañana policy" was suddenly ended by hard-bitten General Joaquin Amaro...
Since November Nature has had no editorial chief. Reason: Sir Richard Arman Gregory, editor since 1919, retired. In 45 years of association with Nature, Sir Richard became one of the Grand Old Men of world science. Last week he visited the U. S. as a sort of goodwill envoy of British learning, making speeches on the philosophy of science and its mission in a disquieted world. This week Sir Richard is scheduled to speak at the winter meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Richmond, where he will undoubtedly be lionized...