Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week. It was neither "the main tide . . . running" nor the intuitive common sense of "the great mass of the people," as Pundit Walter Lippmann implied. But there was indeed "subterranean muttering," as the Alsop Brothers reported. And in a speech by Joseph Patrick Kennedy, millionaire financier and onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, the mutterings surfaced and were clearly heard. If Kennedy's words seemed vaguely familiar, it was because Joe Kennedy had been talking the same way just before World...
...world situation being what it is, Maryland's lame-duck Senator Millard R. Tydings announced, the family had decided to cancel the elaborate "coming-of-age ball" in Washington's Mayflower Hotel for their pretty, blonde, 18-year-old daughter Eleanor. Both parents and grandparents, onetime Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, decided it would be better to substitute "a small and simple" dance at the Chevy Chase Club "in keeping with the austerity of the times...
Call Me Madam,Irving Belin's latest opus, featuring Ethel Merman as a lady ambassador, is said to be based on the career of one Perie Mesta, now ambassador to Luxembourg. The music is Berlin, this time distinctly a cut above Miss Liberty, his last try. The book is by Lindsay and Crouse and direction by George Abbot, an exceptionally talented trio...
...aboard the presidential yacht after lunch (sea food, soup, roast beef, braised celery, broccoli, beans, chicory salad, cheese & crackers, baked Alaskas, chocolates and assorted nuts). They talked again on Wednesday. At the White House, the Prime Minister passed, twinkling, through the gauntlet of correspondents. In his wake strode towering Ambassador Franks, shortening his ambassadorial step so as not to tread on the ministerial heels. On one occasion Mr. Attlee paused to pose, lighting his pipe. Some photographers missed the action and pleaded with him to light his pipe again. Said the Prime Minister...
India, Rau continued, would propose to the Assembly this week a cease-fire in Korea and maybe a demilitarized buffer zone between the U.N. and Communist forces. Rau had also received word from New Delhi that Mao and other Red bigwigs were in close conference with Indian Ambassador Kavalam Nadhava Panikkar, whose anti-Western slant pulls Indian policy towards "neutralism." Panikkar had reported that Peking would negotiate on two conditions: equality in conferences, which seemed to mean recognition by the U.S.; and discussion of all major Far Eastern problems, which seemed to mean acceptance of Communist demands for Korea...