Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday evening came the President's great state dinner for his distinguished guest, now his friend. Seated at the mammoth horseshoe were 86 diners. Vice President Curtis and his sister Mrs. Gann, the British Ambassador and Mrs. Howard, all Cabinet members and their wives, Prime Minister MacDonald's official party, mainstay Senators and their wives, were chief guests. Notably absent were Speaker of the House and Mrs. Longworth, who were "in Cincinnati," thereby reviving still more gossip on the Longworth-Gann feud...
...President Hoover accepted the resignation, long-since proffered, of Ogden H. Hammond, President of Hoboken Terminal Co., Ambassador to Spain. Urged by influential Senator Reed of Pennsylvania as the successor: Irwin Boyle Laughlin of Pittsburgh, career diplomat (Athens. Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London), elder brother of Pittsburgh's George McCully Laughlin Jr. (Jones & Laughlin, steel...
...University Film Foundation traveled several thousand miles last year. One print of the film was sent west, where it was shown as far away as Hawaii, before a group of Harvard men there. Another traveled to South America, where it was shown by R. W. Bliss '00, Ambassador to the Argentine. A third copy was carried to China by Professor J. M. Woods, who was present at the dedication ceremonies of Yenching University, near Peiping...
...Anne Morrow Lindbergh unknowingly last week came into part of her heritage. Ambassador & Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow created a $1,000,000 trust fund for her benefit. Meanwhile her husband was flying her with President & Mrs. Juan Terry Trippe of Pan-American Airways back from Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana (TIME, Sept. 30) to the U. S., by way of Central America. Later this month, the Lindberghs intend to explore by air Mayan ruins among Yucatan forests. In the office of Colonel Lindbergh's publisher* last week was the manuscript of his new book, We Fly, in which he sets down...
...seater, dual control Consolidated biplane was equipped with these new instruments, plus of course the usual flying equipment, and put on the field. Harry Frank Guggenheim, 39, president of the Guggenheim Fund and Ambassador-nominate to Cuba was present. He and Lieutenant Doolittle had an argument. The Lieutenant wanted to fly the plane alone. Mr. Guggenheim, a flyer himself, insisted that Lieutenant Benjamin Kelsey, who had assisted in the research, occupy the front seat, to take control in case accident happened. Piqued, daring (TIME, Sept. 30) Lieutenant Doolittle consented. He crawled into the rear cockpit, hauled an opaque cloth entirely...