Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fans illuminated with the President's portrait and the bold lettering: "Choose Coolidge." ( A White House houseguest of the week was Dwight Whitney Morrow, who required little entertaining so busy was he calling around in officialdom to learn all he could about his new post of U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Morrow took his oath, talked much with the President, heard that he was praised when his predecessor, James Rockwell Sheffield, called on his host...
...Other callers of the week were Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, to urge the appointment of Lawyer David E. Kaufman of Philadelphia as U. S. Minister to Egypt; the new Chilean Ambassador, Dr. Carlos Davila, to present credentials; Senators Charles Curtis of Kansas and Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, and Governor Wallace Rider Farrington of Hawaii, to pay respects; Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee to talk flood control...
King Albert and a slender lady in lavender whom many of the Legionaries thought must be a young princess "or something," stood in front of a fireplace in the palace to receive the callers. Commander Savage and Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson had to poke and pull some of the delegates to show them that the slender lady was Queen Elizabeth, with whom they might shake hands also. Ambassador Gibson introduced the delegation by saying: "There they are, your Majesty. They have fought at Oudenarde, Courtrai, Bruges and Ghent...
...British Legion gave a luncheon with the Prince of Wales, in double-breasted grey suit, as toastmaster. The Prince talked quietly with Commander Savage and Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton until a red-coated attendant rapped the gavel. Then he lifted his glass to "The King!" made a short speech and raised his glass again "To the President of the United States." Earl Haig, British commander-in-chief in the War, recalled incidents of U. S. gallantry. Lady Edward Spencer Churchill and Mrs. Adaline Wright Macauley spoke for their respective Legion Auxiliaries...
Good Press? Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Mexico, spent busy hours severing connections, settling his affairs, emptying desks and files in J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Manhattan office, whence he had resigned. Then he went to dinner at the Lotus Club as chief guest of Herbert Bayard Swope, energetic executive editor of the Independent Democratic New York World. Other guests, whose presence seemed to promise Mr. Morrow "a good press" in the U. S. after he reaches Mexico City, included Publishers Adolph Ochs of the New York Times, Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World...