Word: posting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...deeply moved by [the story entitled] "Post Election...
...week's end the amiable, rumpled Marquess of Lothian, returning to his post after a visit to Britain, stepped off the Atlantic Clipper at LaGuardia Airport, a dispatch case in his hand, England's problem on his shoulders. The British Ambassador told newsreels, reporters...
...beleaguered Europe only two U. S. Ambassadors were last week at their posts. They were Career Men Laurence A. Steinhardt, on duty in Moscow; Alexander W. Weddell, in Madrid. Empty for more than a year was the important listening post in Berlin. Empty, too, were the critical posts in London, Rome, Vichy. U. S. Ministers still stuck in Greece, Rumania, a few other trouble spots. But home in the U. S. (because of war, vacations, illness, etc.) were $139,500 worth of Ambassadors and Ministers. The roster, with yearly salaries and times of their returns...
...Franklin Roosevelt last week made his first move to restore U. S. diplomats to vacant listening posts. He offered the post of Ambassador to France to General John J. Pershing. The 80-year-old general, World War I friend of Marshal Pétain, declined because of his health, on the advice of U. S. Army physicians. Then the President chose another ex-officer as Ambassador to the old Marshal: one of his ablest public servants, cool, steady Admiral William Daniel Leahy, Governor of Puerto Rico. Paunchless, wind-seared Admiral Leahy, whose 65 years look like 50, accepted. His administration...
Iron men Tom Gardner and Chub Peabody from Groton are outstanding candidates for the coveted post, while Choate nominates either Charley Spreyer, Burgy Ayres, or Frannie Lee. All of these men played prominent roles in Harvard's grid successes this fall...