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Some sort of greeting, some sort of banquet, had to be tendered by Britons, last week, to Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton who had just returned from New York to his post in London...
...elected too, and that they had seen the diplomatic last of him. But instead he was defeated, and so he was back in London last week as Ambassador-and so a banquet really had to be arranged. By some Briton's happy thought the banquet was tendered to Alanson Bigelow Houghton by the London Newsvendors Benevolent Association...
...Another way that President Coolidge campaigned was in his letter accepting Alanson Bigelow Houghton's resignation as British Ambassador. The President said:". . . I need not tell you how much I shall feel the loss of your services . . . even though it is to be followed by a continuation of your public life in the Senatorship of the State of New York." Choice of a successor to Mr. Houghton was delayed, perhaps to see what Senators, speechmakers and onetime ambassadors would be available after the election...
...Tennessee, Senator McKellar. In Missouri, Democrat Charles M. Hay, slated to fill the seat of fierce retiring-Senator James A. ("Jim") Reed, might lose to Republican R. C. Patterson. In New York, Senator Dr. Royal S. Copeland (red carnation in buttonhole) might be ousted by Nominee the Hon. Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, whilom (1922-25) Ambassador to Ger many, nominee for the Senate in New York, was third of the G. O. P. spokesmen to plead with Missouri. He went at Nominee Hoover's special request. This request breathed life into one of the most delicate political relations of the season. Soon after Mr. Houghton's mission was announced, arrived a letter from Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois, Nominee Hoover's long-sulking rival for last June's nomination. It was the first utterance of any moment that...