Word: ex-ambassador
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...school kids lined up in ranks. In 14,300 other public schools across the country, students and teachers snapped to attention before their radios. It was the opening of the school year. In the presence of President Peron and la Señora, the new Secretary of Education, strapping ex-Ambassador to Washington Oscar Ivanissevich, explained the educational philosophy of the new Argentina...
...Santa Fe, General Pat Hurley, rambunctious ex-Ambassador to China, asked his friends to dissolve New Mexico's 19 "Hurley-for-President" Clubs, decided to take another crack at the Senate instead. Edged out last time by Democrat Dennis Chavez, Republican Hurley this time would take on shrewd Carl Hatch...
...profits were enough to cause some viewing with alarm. At the New York Herald Tribune Forum, John G. Winant, ex-ambassador to Britain, warned that such "unprecedented profits in combination with the high cost of the necessities of life" created dissension at home and conflicted with U.S. foreign policy, thereby comprising a "new danger to private enterprise here and peace abroad." Many a profit-counter, busy with his books, was hardly bothered by such lofty considerations...
Married. Maria del Rosario Cayetana, Duchess of Montoro, 21, dark-haired daughter of the Duke of Alba, enormously wealthy ex-Ambassador to Britain and one of the world's most formidably titled men -six times a duke, 18 times a count, twelve times a marquess, 15 times a grandee of Spain; and Luis Martinez Irujo y Artazcoz, 26, fourth son of the Duke of Sotomayor; in Seville...
Poland's Russian-controlled Government also tried out some static, Moscow style. Sixteen Poles were convicted of spying for "a foreign government." One of the charges was that they had supplied ex-Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane with material for his article "How Russia Rules Poland," which appeared in LIFE, July 14.* The sentence: death for nine, long imprisonment for seven...