Word: protocol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington was a kaleidoscope of glittering but insignificant formalities. The Governor-General had come with his aides-de-camp and his wife with her lady-in-waiting, Mrs. George Pape. They were met at the Canadian border by Richard Southgate, chief of the State Department's Division of Protocol, and by additional military and naval aides supplied by the U. S. They were met again at Washington's Union Station by Secretary of State Hull, by the U. S. Minister to Canada, by the Canadian Minister and the British Ambassador, by General Craig, Admiral Leahy, Major General Holcomb...
...Soares will come straight from Washington, where he attended the Inauguration and has been conferring with Secretary Hull. He will be accompanied by Julius Holmes, chief of Protocol, and will pay his compliments to the Governor of the Commonwealth and the Mayor of Boston...
...Speaker of the House, and a talk with David Lilienthal about TVA. President Roosevelt ended in highest spirits a First Administration which had begun amid national gloom. At the Speaker's dinner he leaned toward Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, solemnly declared that the chief of protocol had had great difficulty in seating the evening's guests because of the presence of the "Ambassador from Maine." At his press conference next day a jesting newshawk asked if the Navy's two new battleships would be named "Maine" and "Vermont." The grinning President replied that...
...countries to sign a treaty for immediate consultation among all in case of war anywhere in the world; 2) He secured similar unanimous adoption of a declaration of Inter-American solidarity, making the Monroe Doctrine no longer one-sided but 21-sided; 3) The three-year-old Anti-Intervention protocol, under which intervention by an American state in the affairs of another is "inadmissable," was rousingly reaffirmed...
...rich and pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, the Roman Cardinal had met the rich and great, pagan and Protestant as well as Catholic. More than one socialite had been so jittery about what to wear that hurried inquiries had been sent to the State Department's Division of Protocol & Conferences, which stipulated morning coats, long-sleeved and high-necked frocks. Many a great lady got a new thrill as she curtsied, kissed the Cardinal's ring. For everyone present well knew that this lean, smiling Italian prelate may well be the next Pope...