Word: ex-ambassador
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...World Bank. The $30,000-a-year (tax free) presidency of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development had gone begging for months. Several prospects had rejected the job. Then Democratic National Chairman Bob Hannegan began thumping the drums for ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, now a real-estate and Scotch-whiskey tycoon. That got action, but of an unexpected sort...
Henry Morgenthau Sr., ex-Ambassador to Turkey and father of the ex-Secretary of the Treasury, turned 90 in Manhattan, peered at the world, declared happily that it was "far better" than when he came to the U.S., back...
...reporters and the ex-Ambassador arose. The Secretary opened the case, took out a decoration-the Medal for Merit-and pinned it on Harriman's coat...
Histrionic Patrick Jay Hurley got what he wanted: a chance to flail away at the State Department in the full spotlight of a Congressional hearing. A crowd jam-packed the big chamber. Ex-Ambassador Hurley had promised to pull no punches, to name names and dates and places, to expand his charges that career diplomats had done "an inside job" of sabotaging U.S. foreign policy, particularly in China (TIME...
...joint Sino-Soviet control of Manchurian mines and other enterprises). In any case, the National Government may have felt a price worthwhile. It had already agreed to give Russia railway, naval and trade rights in Manchuria-though the Moscow press last week sneered at "impetuous American imperialists" (presumably ex-Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley...