Word: protocols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these terms of aloof friendship, Pandit Nehru set out to see the U.S. He got the red-carpet treatment, full of pomp, plush and protocol. It began with a night at Blair House as the guest of President Truman, two state dinners, a trip to Mount Vernon, tea with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Then came a quiet Sunday visit to Hyde Park to place a wreath on Franklin Roosevelt's grave, a ticker-tape parade through lower Manhattan. At the end of six days he was already beginning to feel overwhelmed. Said Pandit Nehru, smiling: "No one should...
...European arms bill and the $5,809,990,000 foreign economic aid bill. Then, at week's end, he set out for Charlottesville, Va. by automobile to spend two days with his poker-party friend, Stanley Woodward, the State Department's chief of protocol...
...Blueprint. The I.L.G.W.U. was already taking on its distinctive character. The amazing Protocol of Peace, devised by young louis Brandeis to settle the cloakmakers' "Great Revolt" of 1910, was a blueprint years ahead of its time. Its borads of grievances and arbitration were precursors of the WLB and NLRB...
Meanwhile, the Chilean Foreign Ministry had received an angry complaint from the Peruvian embassy over the moving of the ambassador's wreaths. The chief of protocol had already donned his white gloves for a trip to the Alameda to correct this outrage when news of the stolen garlands reached him. He sensibly decided to await further developments...
Last week, mild-mannered Jules Feldmans, carrying his credentials as charge d'affaires (a lower rank since he had not been appointed by a government), was given the full and formal State Department protocol treatment in Washington. He was warmly received by Secretary of State Acheson. For six minutes, lounging in a leather armchair, Feldmans told of the plight of 80,000 Latvian D.P.s who would like to come to the U.S. The State Department put Feldmans' name on the official list of diplomats. Mr. Feldmans did not call on the President, but it was announced unofficially that...