Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central platform were General Shirakawa, commanding Japanese Expeditionary Forces to China, Ambassador to China Shigemitsu, Admiral Nomura, commanding the Japanese Third Fleet, and several other army and navy men, consuls and vice-consuls, Woosung Road bigwigs...
Died. Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, 76, exiled German diplomat, pre-World War I German Ambassador to U. S.; of heart disease; in Geneva, Switzerland...
Engagement Broken. William Edward Dodd Jr., 33, liberal son of the onetime (1933-37) U. S. Ambassador to Germany; and Susan Brownell Anthony II, 25, grandniece of the famed suffragette; in Washington, D. C., four days after it was announced. Mr. Dodd is currently writing the story of his father's experiences in Berlin, Miss Anthony the story of a romance in her great-aunt's life...
...ambassador, not an art director, was Agha's early ambition. A dark, widish man, son of a landowner and tobacco magnate who had kept his Turkish citizenship, he was born 43 years ago at Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...
...many a misconception about the CPI. One of these is that the Creel Committee was entirely responsible for converting a neutral-minded public into a rabid war mob overnight. A lot of neutrality had crumbled away before George Creel finished it off. From Theodore Roosevelt in Oyster Bay to Ambassador Page in London, most of the "best people" in the U. S. had been pro-Ally from the start. On March 11, "War Sunday" had sounded the call to arms in the nation's churches. Four weeks before war the Railroad Brotherhoods said their threatened strike would be called...