Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jacob Gould Schurman, U. S. Ambassador to Germany, to pay respects...
...Recently the Mayor of the greatest city in America visited Europe and was honorably received on his tour everywhere by all except the diplomatic representatives of his own country. Our Ambassador to France . . . was represented by one Sheldon Whitehouse, who promptly put detectives on his [the Mayor's] trail to try and get something on this Mayor who was a member of Tammany Hall, a political body not in sympathy with the party in power here in our own America...
...Think of it, brethren! . . . Rather a base and contemptible piece of diplomacy, methinks. My old college friend,* the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's fled to the highlands of Scotland to avoid meeting the distinguished tourist...
...style dollar diplomat, who sported spinach and used tobacco as a diet, is in the museum; the 1927 ambassador goes in for cigarets, safety razors, safety first, and social eminence, and is visable to the naked eyes of only those wandering Americans bearing mandates from Republican magnates. For all others?the air, the landscape, the department of the exterior...
King Albert of Belgium, who does all he can to promote the breeding of sturdy Belgian draft horses, sent Prince Albert de Ligne, Belgian ambassador to the U. S., to offer a cup at the Live Stock exposition. Charles A. Wentz of Kirby, Ohio, won it with his four-year-old Belgian stallion Lordeau II. Evert King of Chicago owns the best stallion, Waynesdale King. Champion last year also, Waynesdale King could not compete for King Albert...