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...secretary in Madrid. Married to Mary Armour of the meatpacking family, he combined social assurance and a sure sense of protocol with an unspectacular determination to become a competent career man. In 1927 Cal Coolidge borrowed him as White House director of ceremonies, and he stayed on under Herbert Hoover as chief of protocol...
...chemicals), to be Ambassador to Mexico. Yaleman White returns to the Foreign Service after a lapse of 20 years: he first entered the State Department in 1915, held posts in China, the Middle East, Latin America, Spain and Czechoslovakia, rose to Assistant Secretary of State in the Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. After leaving diplomacy in 1933, he became vice president, then president of the nonprofit Foreign Bondholders' Protective Council...
Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd beamed with joy at the prospect of a victory he once thought he might never live to see. Democrat Byrd has long waged unremitting war against the Reconstruction Finance Corp., the huge Government lending agency set up by Herbert Hoover in 1932 as a depression emergency measure and expanded in function and influence during the New and Fair Deals. For years Byrd's fight was a solitary one. Last week, however, Harry Byrd was sublimely confident that the 83rd Congress would ultimately pass his newly introduced bill to wipe...
Three men made the settlement possible: Naguib, Stevenson, and the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Jefferson Caffery. Taciturn, levelheaded, 66-year-old Caffery, dean of the U.S. Foreign Service (he was chief of a mission back in Hoover's Administration), was the honest broker for the great diplomatic triumph. Naguib last week paid him a well-earned tribute: "It was through Ambassador Caffery's good offices that many difficult points were ironed out." Some old-style British imperialists were horrified by the agreement, arguing that it was one more British retreat, like India, Burma and Abadan...
...Dolly was entitled to the same social precedence as a Vice President's wife. To settle the point, brother Charles asked for a decision from Secretary of State Henry Stimson. (Stimson's predecessor, Frank Kellogg, had irritated Curtis by ruling against Dolly.) After a chat with President Hoover, canny Henry Stimson ruled that the matter would have to be decided by the diplomatic corps. In a plenary session at the British Embassy, the harried diplomats gave the nod to Dolly Gann...