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...State Department last week formally announced the appointment of Joseph C. Grew, Under Secretary of State, as Ambassador to Turkey, following the receipt of word from Constantinople that Mr. Grew was persona grata to the Turkish Government...
...President, Señor Adolfo Diaz, was elected by the Nicaraguan Congress in joint session, an assembly so accustomed to being bullied by armed factions in Nicaragua that its acts must always be regarded with suspicion. Apparently President Diaz was elected because he is known to be persona grata to the U. S., which intervened to support him when he was previously elected President in 1910 and again...
...Samuel Shoemaker, zealous disciple. Mr. Buchman is smooth, with a long intelligent nose, a hungry eye. He is to be seen from time to time traveling first class on the principal transatlantic liners. When at New Haven, or Princeton, or Cambridge, Mass., or Cambridge, Eng., he is persona grata among a group of serious-minded young men distinguished by their piety and their wealth. Like young Buchmanites, Mr. Buchman is a bachelor, though past 40. In what does his influence over them reside...
Zaghlul, knowing himself persona non grata to the British, came to discuss whether he might assume the premiership. It was almost as though President Coolidge, duly erected by a Republican landslide, had felt obliged to ask the ambassador of a foreign power at Washington whether he might enter the White House...
...State for India") in completely reorganizing the government of India after it was taken over from the old East India Co. Since Sir Charles Wood won the enduring gratitude of the Indian reigning houses by relieving them of the exploitation of early British misrule, his grandson is automatically persona grata at Delhi...