Word: protocol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later the Navy, more interested in expediency than protocol, rushed Miss Marsh to the shipyard, had her send the Fanning down the ways in the teeth of last week's blinding gale. This time the official guests were inside the shipyard gates, the strikers outside...
Behind the obvious work of remaking the Yard into a theater worthy of Harvard's jubilee, there was an amount of detail and protocol that can scarcely be imagined. On an occasion when correctness must be the First Commandment there was a discouraging lack of precedents to follow. Harvard had never before played host in such lavish fashion, and the rules had to be made up as the game went along. It is certain that Mr. Greene on several occasions must have longed to sit down and write a letter beginning, "Dear Emily Post...
...that Corps Commander Colonel Rafael Franco, 39, had led them victoriously in person to the very border of Bolivia proper. Something seemed wrong when their commanding officer, General José Felix Estigarribia, marched them home to poverty-stricken Paraguay, when Foreign Minister Luis Riart signed a modest peace protocol with Bolivia, when the Paraguayan Congress approved it and when President Eusebio Ayala ordered the Paraguayan Army demobilized and Bolivian prisoners returned to Bolivia. The Army had won the war; the politicians were throwing away the victory. Last month General Estigarribia charged Colonel Franco with organizing a so-called National Front...
Inasmuch as the Gran Chaco peace protocol, ratified by the Paraguayan Congress, and the international South American declaration in 1932 that "military conquest grants no sovereignty," are now part of Paraguay's national law, Franco could do nothing last week but agree to abide by those treaties...
...South American nations that had wangled the peace protocol and had just accepted President Roosevelt's invitation to a great Pan-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires, Colonel Franco was last week a piercing pain in the neck...