Word: envoys
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...strengthened by the knowledge that the President & Mrs. Roosevelt both speak fluent French, his mother habitually travels on the French Line (always asking for the same cabin steward) and the new U. S. Ambassador to France, genial William Christian Bullitt, is regarded as the most pro-French U. S. envoy in Paris since the late Myron Herrick.* The political life of the Blum Cabinet has rested in recent weeks partly upon the success of M. Blum in persuading Parliament that Mr. Roosevelt is friendly to the French New Deal and has ordered Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to cushion...
Britons also recalled that in Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham they have been sent by President Roosevelt the most pro-British envoy since President Wilson's famed Walter Hines Page...
...descendant of a family that originated in Lannoy and which, around 1600, emigrated to the Netherlands." Offering congratulations, the Mayor of Lannoy declared: "It is not without pride that we have learned of your triumphant re-election!" * Too, Frenchmen know that in Berlin the President has an anti-Nazi envoy, Ambassador William Edward Dodd (TIME...
...Peiping last week girlish hearts fluttered fast as news went round that an envoy of 30-year-old Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo, formerly known as Henry Pu Yi ("Boy Emperor of China"), had arrived from Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines...
...dislocated arm on an ant-hill in Southern Rhodesia. A similar mishap overtook another entrant at Mpulungu near Lake Tanganyika, while a third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with three companions, the second a small single-engined Percival Vega Gull flown by Pilot Charles William Anderson Scott, winner of the 1934 England-Australia air race, and Co-Pilot Giles Guthrie...