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...appointing an ambassador, it is customary for the State Department to select a candidate who is persona grata to the government of the country concerned. When, last week, the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Manhattan's Harry Frank Guggenheim as Ambassador to Cuba, the question of acceptability was quite ideally met. Mr. Guggenheim is well acquainted with Cuban problems. Cuban people. But there were more than personal reasons for his appointment having been welcome to "El Gallo" (The Rooster). President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. For the very fact that Mr. Guggenheim and not a more...
...unless the Smithsonian Institute is deceived about the age of the shells in its cases. But not until the year 100 B. C. did the world take an active interest in the sex life of the oyster. The first to make a study of oyster love was one Sergius Grata, who founded an oyster farm on Italy's Lake Lucrine. The last was omnivorous General Foods Corp. which last week announced the formation of a new subsidiary. Bluepoints Co. Inc., to take over the assets of the North Atlantic Oyster Farms, Inc. operating in Rhode Island, Connecticut...
...persona grata as minister to that country...
...harried group who mutter something about "Divisionals" and hurry back to their books. At the other extreme are those whose academic engagements have been reduced to a minimum and who do not even look up from their road-maps and time-tables at the Vagabond's approach. Persona non grata as he may be, the Vagabond lingers on past the usual date of his annual disappearance, and for two reasons...
...acts as an agent for the Soviet Regime he is tolerated. When he presumes to act as an agent for the paper which employs him, maintains his office, pays his expenses and pays his cable charges, when he attempts to be faithful with his readers, he is persona non grata. If he does not correct his course at official suggestion he is invited to leave the country. In the future all our reports from Russia will come from agents sent to the country on special assignments...