Word: thanklessness
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...midnight? Among other things, he was onetime Judge Advocate General (legal head) of the U. S. Army and its ablest lawyer in many a year. He was the chief author of the selective draft law? an achievement as difficult as it was unpopular. In Cuba, he ably unraveled another thankless knot. As one of the makers of its organic law, as personal representative of President Harding, as U. S. Ambassador since 1923, no man has done more to take the chaos out of Cuba than Major General Crowder...
...vote of 284 to 186. He represents the "Locarnoist" policy of Foreign Minister Briand, and defeated for his new post the onetime "Ruhrist" War Minister of Premier Poincaré, M. André Maginot. Frenchmen were pleased by the elevation of M Buisson last week, for he has held the thankless Vice-Presidency of the Chamber for the past two years with tact, polish, souplesse...
Events national and international impinged significantly during the past fortnight upon Premier Raymond Poincare. He who stepped from the Olympian security of a onetime (1913-1920) Presidency of France to assume a thankless Premiership and save the franc (TIME, Aug. 2), became once again a nucleus for strife, a target for criticism...
...Japan to accept tentative invitations to a new Naval Disarmament Conference under U. S. auspices. Last week word came from Geneva that Britain had definitely refused. 2) In materially assisting Chile and Peru to compose their differences over Tacna-Arica, a dispute in which the U. S. assumed the thankless role of arbiter during the Harding Administration. 3) In moving the Mexican Government from its determination virtually to confiscate numerous U. S. owned oil equities, in defiance of the agreement of "mutual understanding" negotiated between Mexico and the U. S. as a condition of the recognition of Mexico...
Though he rode into that office as a Radical-Socialist when the electorate returned the present "Left Parliament"* in 1924, M. Doumergue is neither "radical" nor "socialist" but a "liberal" endowed with common sense. He has exercised with great tact and ability the thankless role of a President compelled to appoint 9 Ministries of widely varying political complexions within 25 months...