Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work in his father's Chilean copper mine. He was 21 when he saw 19-year-old Maria Humeres del Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment. The Bradens have five children, three grandchildren...
...Much Protocol...
...officials chose Colonel Douglas for the post, got his acceptance and the tentative agreement of British officials. Protocol demanded so long a delay in announcing the appointment that Colonel Douglas withdrew his name. Rear Admiral Ellery Stone is still the U.S. Commissioner...
Harry Truman arose, motioned to the others to keep their seats. At the piano he turned to remark: "When Stalin heard me play this he signed the protocol at Potsdam." The piano was not in good tune and Harry Truman was not in his best musical form. He confessed that he had finished the Minuet with a few bars of a Mozart sonata. Then there were autographs to sign-from a toy bear to a WAVE's leave papers...
...reward of his labors almost at hand last week, Envoy Lange left Washington, secluded himself in a friend's home in Virginia, waited for protocol to catch up with him. He had one other thing to do: renounce his U.S. citizenship...