Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador-designate to Cuba Col. Noble Brandon Judah, whom Secretary of State Kellogg presented with some formality...
...Italian Ambassador, Signer Nobile Giacomo de Martino, with 60 countrymen, members of the Vatican Choir. The latter presented the President first with a collection of copper engravings of Vatican paintings, encased in tooled leather; second, with singing at the White House steps. Mrs. Coolidge listened from an upper window...
Rentfro Banton Creager "the red-headed rooster of the Rio Grande." He was a customs collector under Presidents Taft and Roosevelt and a gubernatorial nominee in 1916. He has been State Republican Chairman of vast Texas since 1921 and he was asked by Presidents Harding and Coolidge to be Ambassador to Mexico. Rentfro Banton Creager is esteemed...
Lord Derby, as Secretary of State for War (1916-18 & 1922-24), and British Ambassador at Paris (1918-20), has proved his "fitness" by sustained, dynamic statesmanship. If, during crucial War years, not even the Secretary of State for War could touch his toes, what may be the state of England's great men in present times of peace? This question, mildly savoring of treason vitiated the British press all week, while reporters tried vainly to get other great men to affirm or deny that they can touch their toes. Cagy politicians refused to answer, but Mr. George Bernard...
Died. Lady Victoria Bullock, daughter of Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, onetime (1918-20) British Ambassador to France; following a hunting accident in which her skull was fractured when she attempted to ride under a low bridge; near Leicester...