Word: ambassadorships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign, Curley led a pace that that would have buried two men; he covered 23 states and made 141 speeches. For all this, Roosevelt promised him a cabinet position--probably Secretary of the Navy. However, when the tome came for the appointments Roosevelt changed his mind, offering Curley the ambassadorship to Rome in place of the cabinet job. Once more, Curley accepted but Roosevelt backed down; finally, the President asked Curley if he would accept the position of ambassador to Poland. Apparently,, Roosevelt was not going to make the mistake Curley had made as governor and appoint pure politicians...
Throughout India there is widespread administrative corruption and bumbling, especially in the provinces. Nepotism, an ancient Oriental custom, reaches everywhere ; as an example in the highest place, the Prime Minister's critics point to the elevation of his elder sister, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, first to the ambassadorship in Moscow, then in Washington...
...same idea. Even as Premier, Puppet Dinnyes had been unable to get his sister, Etelka Gunde, an exit visa. So Etelka, with her husband and two sons, got across the border through the forests. In Austria she was free to tell about her brother. Rakosi had promised him the ambassadorship at Bern if he would denounce Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, primate of Hungary. Dinnyes, envisioning Bern and freedom from Rakosi's secret police, called Mindszenty "the center of the counterrevolutionary forces in Hungary...
...addition to the Ambassadorship, there is a multi-million-dollar project for Schine's swank Boca Raton Club near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Geddes, who regards the earth as well as buildings on it as fair game for rearranging, has started bulldozers reshaping the land around Boca Raton. Objective: a gently rolling, foursquare-mile plateau with just about the highest elevation (16 ft.) in the area. On it will be built a community of de luxe "cottages" that will sell at from, $20,000 to $50,000 apiece...
...ambassadorship" to the Vatican, said the Century, is unconstitutional...