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In the dear dead days before the present millennium had set in, diplomacy was secret, diplomats secretive and suave. The late Sir Arthur Nicolson (1849-1928), onetime English Ambassador to the Sublime Porte (Constantinople), to Madrid, to St. Petersburg, onetime Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, is the subject of his...
Servants of the people are not happy unless they serve. To stand and wait is not their forte. Congressmen before whose names the people have written "ex" instead of "X" become ambassadors to the Sublime Porte or Commissioners of This and That. Tammany Hall has no power to supply such...
La Porte, Ind. Let Marian Shields's teacher, without abandoning healthy skepticism, hesitate to cry "impossible!" Henry Mates, aged 5, of Washington, D. C., did go bald (see cut). His hair did begin falling out soon after he had been scared by a fox terrier puppy. A doctor was...
10:40-Arrival under the White House porte-cochere. Mr. Hoover enters.
Important reception guests draw up in front, under the White House porte cochère, and march directly in past the President's Seal embedded in the floor of the main foyer.