Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Formerly American Minister to Rumania and formerly American Ambassador to Chile. Charmian...
...status quo. This policy, for many reasons, is the one which the U. S. is most apt to follow. It is what the indispensable, kindly, wise adviser of the State Department, Stanley K. Hornbeck, calls "a course of self-denial and restraint." It is certainly the course which Ambassador Johnson represents...
...Sept. 17, 1935, Nelson Johnson was graduated from Minister to Ambassador, his salary raised from $10,000 to $17,500. All the while Japan was becoming more & more threatening, and by July 1937, when North China hostilities began, Ambassador Johnson had a really big job on his hands. It then took four hours for a cable to get to Washington, and considerably longer for an answer to return; and so he usually made decisions and consulted afterward...
...pillow. He has thinning pale-gold hair, with lashes and brows to match, a face all shades of pink, from salmon to sunset, big enough nose, strong chin, mouth with a chronic smile. In ricksha, cutaway or gas mask he looks more like a tire salesman than an Ambassador...
Prominent guests who will be invited include: Hu Shih, ambassador from China to the United States; Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith; Professor Frederick L. Schuman from Williams; Max Lerner; and Clarence K. Streit. The club hopes to get also the attendance of a number of foreign diplomats from Washington and a selected group of the University's faculty...