Word: skilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his first four years in Washington Count Jerszy Potocki has carried on with skill and ensuing popularity the routine duties of Polish ambassador. Rarely did his name appear in print; and then usually at official receptions. He lived the life of an ambassador in the spirit of the sportsman. His days belonged to the hounds, to tennis, to dancing. Wherever he mixed, his charm prepared the way for closer American friendship with Poland...
...Admiral Yarnell last week Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison said, "You were awarded the Distinguished Service Medal [Aug. 28, 1939] for exceptional ability, courage, tact. . . in . . . handling with the greatest skill . . . the many delicate situations that arose during the continued emergency in China. . . . The Secretary of the Navy regrets...
Travelers who have never heard of Whistler's Father have remarked that this 400-mile line is one of the straightest on earth. According to legend, the Tsar so ordered it by ruling a line on the map. According to Parry, Major Whistler's skill and economy had much to do with it. A firm Irish Yankee, he was amazed to find Russian engineers behaving like poets, actors, priests and revolutionaries (Dostoevsky graduated from the Imperial Engineering School in 1843). He proudly refused a commission in the Tsar's army, refused to say "Your Majesty" to Nicholas...
Problem. Hardheaded diplomats deplored the rocketing headlines over the case of City of Flint. U. S. diplomatic history is crammed with such cases; the U. S. has an impressive record of skill in litigation over them. The likelihood that the future will see more important issues made it desirable that this one should be kept in perspective. Quickly Government spokesmen made cold and quiet statements: although the U. S. position was that City of Flint's, voyage was legal, Germany acted according to international law in seizing the ship, putting a prize crew aboard, declaring the cargo contraband. True...
That was 23 years ago. Last week, into Kola Bay, north of the Russian harbor of Murmansk, the U. S. freighter City of Flint dropped anchor and thereby posed for Russia a far less crucial test of its neutrality, the skill of its diplomats, the wisdom of its foreign policy. City of Flint was flying the German flag. It carried a German prize crew. Dramatic was the story of its seizure and flight. But last week the swift routine moves of the Russian Foreign Commissariat, the swift routine countermoves of the U. S. State Department, unexpectedly turned into something bigger...