Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week crate-counters smiled, rubbed hands, said "I told you so." When James Rockwell Sheffield, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, had left Mexico City last month for what was announced as a vacation, skeptics had spied upon his baggage, counted some 27 crates of personal and household effects. Who, vacation bound, would travel so heavily freighted? Ambassador Sheffield, they concluded, was not coming back...
...thus predicted, the Ambassador did resign. He called on President Coolidge at Custer Park, requested relief from his post in a formal letter: "It is with deepest regret. . . has been a great privilege . . . great honor. . . your wise comprehension. . . unfailing kindness . . . generous support . . . . With my earnest wishes for health and strength in the carrying on of your great burdens . . . ." To which the President replied: "Your formal letter . . . has been received. . . . Your services. . . able and distinguished. . . sincere appreciation . . . courage and ability . . . I shall always feel under obligations to you. . . ." Relieved, the Ambassador remained at the State Lodge for a few days, planned...
Rumors of a Sheffield resignation began to circulate as far back as last summer when the Ambassador visited the U. S. for a conference with the President, then vacationing in the Adirondacks. For that trip, however, the Ambassador had purchased a round-trip ticket, and he was soon back in Mexico City. (President Coolidge in the letter quoted above referred to "the suggestion you made in the summer of 1926?that you did not wish to remain in Mexico...
...Department of the Interior would be the logical guardian of the Islanders. This plan did not at all please the Filipinos, who saw; in it a step toward making the Islands perpetually a U. S. territory. Filipinos want to be put under the State Department and be sent an Ambassador instead of a Governor General. However, they at least had grounds for hoping that the "Cavalry Cabinet" would soon be dismounted...
Reported Engaged. Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime (1923-25) U. S. Ambassador to Spain, widower of famed Lillian Russell; to Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram, widow of Enrico Caruso (famed tenor), onetime wife of Captain G. A. Ingram...