Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shifting Tusks. But all was not well, for just behind the King a crisis was developing. Borne by two ebon attendants, the royal gifts-two huge elephant tusks-were pointed in opposite directions which is against all tusk-presentation protocol. Noticing their hideous faux pas at the last moment, each attendant shifted his tusk. They were still pointed in opposite directions. As King Pedro was about to turn to make his official presentation, the Pope noticed that a third shifting of the tusks was about to take place. He held the King's attention until both tusks were pointed...
...Democratic dinner, ostensibly in honor of New York's Mayor O'Dwyer, brought more than $100,000 profit into the state committee's bank account. But it left some serious political gas pains. In an effort to by-pass the imponderables of intraparty protocol, the state committee had selected a dais long enough only to seat the guest of honor, three Cabinet members, four state party committeemen, and sundry divines. Seated on the indiscriminate floor were such party stalwarts as Jim Farley, ex-Senator James Mead, the party's 1946 candidate for governor, ex-Governor Herbert...
Most Japanese regard Katayama as a not-too-strong, neutral character-"neither poison nor medicine"-and doubt that his Cabinet will do much. The new coalition has already made its unhappy mark on protocol-happy Imperial Household officials. At this week's formal investiture, several Ministers showed up without dress coats...
...prospect was unnerving, even for a seasoned cultivator of U.S. tribal manners like the State Department's Protocol Division. In March, Mexico had nearly blown Harry Truman's hat off with a welcome heard round the hemisphere. This week, Mexican President Miguel Aleman was due north on a return call. To keep U.S. face, Washington's plain citizens would have to step out of character and match, or better, the Mexican enthusiasm. The Protocol Division's patient, able Stanley Woodward was worried. He called on the Army, Navy, Marines, school officials, the Washington Board of Trade...
...Washington parties, particularly from oil heiresses and South American embassies. As Senator Tiglon of New York he would also be invited to the White House, thus posing difficult, but not necessarily insuperable problems of security. And if he refrained from eating butlers (except at crowded cocktail parties), observed protocol and learned to growl softly at older women, Senator Tiglon might even-despite his mixed parentage -become a social lion...