Word: pinkney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secret told, Cordell Hull cared little about Vichyfrance reaction, remained stonily indifferent when the Laval Government told tall, dapper S. Pinkney Tuck, to whom the development was no surprise, that it was breaking relations with...
Without so much as a diplomatic hesitation, the U.S. told Vichyfrance last week that a spade is a spade. When flabby, sinister Pierre Laval protested to the U.S. Chargé d'Affairs, S. Pinkney Tuck, that the U.S. bombings of Rouen and Havre were "odious aggression," Mr. Tuck did not even pretend to wait for an answer from Washington. Then & there, he told Laval that the U.S. did not aim to kill Frenchmen but all factories in Occupied France operated by or for Germany "would be bombed at every opportunity in the future...
...pleasure of ticking off Laval certainly appealed to elegant S. (for Somerville) Pinkney Tuck. Tall, handsome, with flecks of grey in his sandy hair, "Kippy" Tuck has always liked the social end of diplomacy, was best known for his correct parties, graceful dancing and pleasant, anecdotical conversation...
...Buenos Aires, with Acting President Ramón Castillo and his Joseph-coated bodyguard on hand, a fashionable crowd first saw the exhibition in the floodlit National Museum of Fine Arts on July Fourth eve. The Argentines were impressed. Led by U.S. Chargé d'Affaires Somerville Pinkney ("Kippy") Tuck, porteños traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting...