Word: envoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor of Japan, illustrious "Son of Heaven" He had spent the day writing diplomatic notes to President Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XI, King George V, Premier Benito Mussolini and other foreign devils." Each note will be personallydelivered by Manchukuo's new Special Diplomatic Envoy, General Ting Shih-yuan who also had a brand new trousseau last week. On their missions abroad Minister Hsieh and General Ting will speak of a peaceful, orderly, independent Manchukuo over which presides "The Last of the Manchu Emperors," spindly, weak-eyed Henry...
Norman Hapgood, onetime editor of Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Hearst's International, Envoy Extraordinary &; Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark under President Wilson, dramatic critic, author, turned himself into a radio announcer, to advertise the soups of Columbia Conserve Co., famed for its conversion by the Hapgood clan into a social ized industry where employes own 51% of the common stock (TIME, July...
...proper wording. When I saw the advertisement, I remonstrated as he can confirm and I insisted that in all correspondence he point out that the announcement was made on his own initiative. He meant well and in his enthusiasm made the quite pardonable technical error of describing a former "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" as an "Ambassador," and such earnestness caught the attention of the meticulous stylemaster of TIME...
Incidentally, in his defense may I state that he was aware that the President of the U. S. had offered me a real Ambassadorship when I voluntarily retired from 26 years' international service as U. S. Envoy and Minister and Director General of the Pan American Union, and that I had declined because I did not have the financial resources to accept...
...part of his preparations M. Laval decided to sound out the British Government. He invited to Paris the great Lord Reading, special Envoy to the U. S. in 1917, today British Foreign Secretary. London papers pictured Lord Reading as about to make two points to M. Laval: 1) that Britain stands with the U. S. in favor of armament cuts; 2) that Britain still urgently desires the International Fiscal Conference proposed some time ago by Philip Snowden, hopes that M. Laval will discuss it with Mr. Hoover...