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...longer will Britishers say polite nothings when the U. S. Embassy residence in London is mentioned. Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James's will now reside at Nos. 13 and 14 Prince's Gate, S. W., a gift of the late J. Pierpont Morgan to the Government. Some $450,000 has been spent upon the aristocratic gold and scarlet interior decorations which were completed last week...
...Alanson Bigelow Houghton, wife of the U. S. Ambassador, was of course responsible for the presentation of U. S. maids and matrons, daughters and wives either of members of the diplomatic corps or of intrinsically potent fathers, husbands. By special dispensation of the Lord Chamberlain, these gentlemen were permitted?for the first time?to peer from the door of an anteroom upon the ceremony. None were themselves presented...
Newspaperman Clinton W. Gilbert takes with an almost judicial scrupulosity his function of measuring out a daily mead of praise. Last week he decided that Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton had been unfairly treated during his recent visit home (TIME, April 5 CABINET). So this is what Mr. Gilbert judged...
Quietly, indeed nearly unnoticed, Alanson B. Houghton sailed with his secretary on the Majestic, to resume his duties as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Recalling what shocks had rebounded from his informal talk to newspapermen in Washington (TIME, April 5), he refused to permit the ship-news reporters to quote him on anything...
...Gloomy Gus." The gentleman was, of course, Mr. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, chubby, rotund, 62, late U. S. Ambassador to Germany, now U. S. Ambassador to Britain, sine? birth destined to his present industrial mogulship: Chairman of the Board of the enormous Corning Glass Works, which the Houghtons of Corning, N. Y., have controlled for three generations...