Word: loy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rains of Ranchlpur (20th Century-Fox), for instance, wades once more through The Rains Came, a story that is just as soggy today as it was in 1939. The main difference is that this time Lana Turner and not Myrna Loy is the girl who breasts the flood...
...succeed canny Career Diplomat Loy Henderson, now Deputy Under Secretary of State, as Ambassador to Iran, President Eisenhower last week picked canny Career Diplomat Julius Cecil Holmes, onetime insurance salesman, Army general and airline president...
...agreement was prodded, adjusted and pushed through by Loy Henderson, then U.S. Ambassador to Iran, and Special U.S. Emissary Herbert Hoover Jr., now Under Secretary of State...
...consular official came to Jefferson, Ohio to visit his brother, the famed author and editor, William Dean Howells. When he appeared on the streets wearing shorts, a pith helmet and an air of inscrutable mystery, he was nothing less than a sensation. One of those who was dazzled was Loy Wesley Henderson, the 14-year-old son of Jefferson's Methodist minister. He was disappointed to learn that the mysterious stranger was not an explorer (young Henderson had just finished reading Stanley's account of his adventures in Africa), but the memory of the occasion stuck. Years later...
...when Secretary Dulles called him on the phone from Washington. Would Hoover go to Iran, as a State Department special adviser, and see if he could bring the obdurate British and the stubborn Iranians together? Hoover would. He now assesses the job (with shrewd help from Ambassador Loy Henderson in Teheran) as 10% engineering, 15% negotiation, 75% ministering to emotional fevers. Old hands at the State Department appraise it as the finest one-man job since Dulles negotiated the Japanese peace treaty...