Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...funniest comedies, one of the most original and ingratiating love stories, and one of the most intelligent pieces of social criticism ever to come out of Hollywood. Garbo laughs, Melvyn Douglas laughs, and the audience guffaws at the happy, hysterical carryings-on of a female Soviet envoy in Paris, in the days when a Frenchman pulled down the shades, but not because of an air raid. Ernst Lubitsch's direction has created several unforgettable scenes; the first kiss of the Parisian man-about-town and the desexed Russian agent. Ninotchka, with her first three glasses of champagne fizzing warmly underneath...
Between the Vatican and President Roosevelt there is warm friendship and, on occasion, warm agreement. But between Mr. Roosevelt and Monsignor Cicognani there is neither. Before the President announced his appointment of Myron C. Taylor as his personal envoy to the Pope,* he consulted not Monsignor Cicognani but New York's able new Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, and Auxiliary Bishop Bernard James Sheil, temporary successor of Chicago's late Cardinal Mundelein...
...Taylor, who will have the rank of Ambassador, but without portfolio, will be the first U. S. envoy to visit the Vatican officially since Rufus King left Rome in 1868, after Congress refused to appropriate any more money for his salary...